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LLL

LLL proper noun: la Leche League: international non-profit organisation that promotes breastfeeding. Also the initialism of lifelong learning.

Proper noun

LLL

  1. La Leche League: international non-profit organisation that promotes breastfeeding.
    • The LLL promotes the idea of good mothering through the womanly art of breastfeeding. Some 1,000 mothers and 500 babies from across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina and Johannesburg, South Africa, attended the three-day convention at the Denver Hilton.1968 September 5, “La Leche League To Hear Report On Convention”, in The Norwalk Hour, page 9
    • The latter group, known as the La Leche League (LLL), produce a monthly bulletin which can be very useful in this regard, showing, as it does, a modern group of women in an affluent society who believe that breast feeding is worthwhile achieving.1983 September, Derrick Brian Jelliffe, Child Nutrition in Developing Countries: A Handbook for Fieldworkers, Peace Corps Information Collection and Exchange, page 123
    Synonyms:
    LLLI

Also used as

LLL is also the initialism of lifelong learning.

LLL is also the initialism of left lower lobe.

LLL is also the initialism of low-level language.

LLL is also the initialism of live.

Examples of LLL in a sentence

  • The LLL's founders allied themselves with physicians, albeit unconventional ones, from its very inception.2001, Jacqueline H. Wolf, Don't Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries...
  • The La Leche League (LLL), formed in 1956—for women, by mothers—to provide education, practical guidance, and support for women in their efforts to breastfeed and "mother" their children.2021, Ruth A. Lawrence, Robert M. Lawrence, Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Professional, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 4:

Synonyms of LLL

Origin of LLL

Abbreviations.

Questions about LLL

What does LLL mean?
LLL means la Leche League: international non-profit organisation that promotes breastfeeding.
How do you use LLL in a sentence?
The LLL's founders allied themselves with physicians, albeit unconventional ones, from its very inception.
What part of speech is LLL?
LLL is a proper noun.

Words near LLL in the dictionary

  1. LLG
  2. LLGs
  3. Llin-nen
  4. Lliswerry
  5. LLJJ
  6. LLL
  7. LLLP
  8. LLLPs
  9. LLM
  10. LLM psychoses
  11. LLM psychosis

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