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NFL

/ɛn ɛf ɛl/

NFL is the initialism of National Football League.

NFL is the initialism of Newfoundland and Labrador.

NFL is the initialism of no free lunch.

Meaning of Newfoundland and Labrador

Proper noun

Newfoundland and Labrador

  1. A province in eastern Canada; abbreviation Nfld., Nfld, NL, N.L., N. L., or NF; formerly, Newfoundland (1949–2001). Capital: St. John's.

Noun

NFL (uncountable)

  1. (UK, metonymically) American football.
    • Soon after Boston and London were over, two other dramatic races were playing out in my head [...] just as we enjoy the long term implications of a match result in baseball, NFL or soccer.2007 07, Running Times, page 64
    • In a neo-conservative era where parents have regressed by dressing their daughters as pink princesses, where toy stores segregate their merchandise according to ‘gender’, where women playing NFL in bikinis is ‘sport’, and where Miss Universe is every adolescent girl’s ambition, was I really that...2017 March 16, Pearl Bullivant, “Shine Bright like a Diamond”, in The Beast, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2024

Forms of NFL

alternative formN.F.L.

Words formed from NFL

Words that rhyme with NFL

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Questions about NFL

What does NFL mean?
NFL means american football.
What is NFL the initialism of?
NFL is the initialism of National Football League.
What part of speech is NFL?
NFL is a noun.
How do you pronounce NFL?
NFL is pronounced /ɛn ɛf ɛl/.

Words near NFL in the dictionary

  1. NFID
  2. NFIs
  3. NFJS
  4. NFKC
  5. NFKD
  6. NFL
  7. Nfld
  8. Nfld.
  9. NFLer
  10. NFLers
  11. NFLS

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: NFL (page history and authors); Newfoundland and Labrador (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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