AB

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Etymology

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Proper noun

AB

  1. Abbreviation of Alberta, a province of Canada.
    Coordinate terms: BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT
  2. Initialism of Artium baccalaureus.
  3. Initialism of Aryan Brotherhood, a US white supremacist, neo-Nazi prison gang and crime syndicate.

Noun

AB (countable and uncountable, plural ABs)

  1. Initialism of able seaman; able-bodied seaman.
  2. Initialism of afterburner.
  3. Initialism of aid to the blind.
  4. (military, aviation) Initialism of airbase.
  5. (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of alkylbenzene.
    Hyponym: LAB
  6. (medicine) Initialism of antibody.
  7. Initialism of artificial breeding.
  8. (law, politics) Initialism of assembly bill.
  9. A blood type of the ABO system that has both blood antigens and may receive all blood types, and donate to AB.
    Coordinate terms: A, B, O, A+, B+, AB+, O+, A-, B-, AB-, O-
    1. (countable) A person with this blood type.
  10. (ABDL) Initialism of adult baby.
  11. (Australia, Adelaide, countable) A kind of halal snack pack.
assembly bill

Adjective

AB (not comparable)

  1. Initialism of airborne.
  2. Initialism of antiballistic.
  3. (baseball) Initialism of at bat.

See also

References

Anagrams

Chinese

Etymology

From the first two letters of the English alphabet A and B.

Pronunciation


Determiner

AB

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) two separate (instances)
    AB team返工 [Cantonese]  ―  fan1 ei1 bi1 tim1 faan1 gung1 [Jyutping]  ―  to go to work separated into two teams (i.e. each team goes to work on alternative days)
    AB team [Cantonese]  ―  haang4 ei1 bi1 tim1 [Jyutping]  ―  to install an "AB team" system
    ABAB [Cantonese]  ―  fan1 ei1 bi1 zou2 [Jyutping]  ―  to separate into two groups

German

Pronunciation

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Noun

AB m

  1. Abbreviation of Anrufbeantworter.
  2. (apartment listing) Abbreviation of Altbau.

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Noun

AB (first-person possessive ABku, second-person possessive ABmu, third-person possessive ABnya)

  1. (finance, government, management) Initialism of anggaran belanja.
  2. Initialism of arah benar.
  3. (military) Initialism of angkatan bersenjata.
  4. (business, management) Initialism of administrasi bisnis.
  5. (hematology) AB: A blood type of the ABO system that has both blood antigens and may receive all blood types, and donate to AB.

Further reading

Lithuanian

Proper noun

AB f

  1. Initialism of akcinė bendrovė

Malay

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [e.bi]
  • Hyphenation: A‧B
  • Rhymes: -bi

Noun

AB

  1. (biology) The AB blood type.
  2. Initialism of anggaran belanja (expense estimate).

References

Further reading

Romanian

Proper noun

AB

  1. Abbreviation of Alba, a county in Romania.

Swedish

Alternative forms

  • Ab (Finland Swedish, only in the sense "aktiebolag" below)

Noun

AB

  1. the blood type AB
  2. Abbreviation of aktiebolag. (corporation; stock company; public limited company)

Anagrams

Turkish

Noun

AB

  1. the blood type AB

Proper noun

AB

  1. (politics) Initialism of Avrupa Birliği (European Union)