Standard Lemma guide
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name
Initialism of Football Association, especially the English Football Association. See also Scottish FA and Welsh FA.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
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name
Initialism of Fur Affinity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, slang, uncountable
Topics: lifestyle
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noun
A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.
Sometimes syllable for both the tonic and the fourth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Initialism of Fanconi anemia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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noun
Initialism of featured article.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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noun
Initialism of felonious assault.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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noun
Initialism of flight attendant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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noun
Initialism of fee agreement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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noun
Initialism of fat admirer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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noun
Initialism of financial aid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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noun
Initialism of free agent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Abbreviation of final A.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Initialism of forever alone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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prep
Alternative spelling of for.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, informal
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pron
Initialism of fuck all.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, vulgar
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pron
Initialism of Fanny Adams.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, euphemistic, initialism
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noun
the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: solfa syllable
History
From Glover's solmization, from Middle English fa (“fourth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian fa in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin famulī (“servants”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.
Across languages
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
