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English
Etymology
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Proper noun
AB
- Abbreviation of Alberta, a province of Canada.
- Coordinate terms: BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT
- Initialism of Artium baccalaureus.
- Initialism of Aryan Brotherhood, a US white supremacist, neo-Nazi prison gang and crime syndicate.
Noun
AB (countable and uncountable, plural ABs)
- Initialism of able seaman; able-bodied seaman.
- Initialism of afterburner.
- Initialism of aid to the blind.
- (military, aviation) Initialism of airbase.
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of alkylbenzene.
- Hyponym: LAB
- (medicine) Initialism of antibody.
- Initialism of artificial breeding.
- (law, politics) Initialism of assembly bill.
- 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-
- (countable) A person with this blood type.
- (ABDL) Initialism of adult baby.
- (Australia, Adelaide, countable) A kind of halal snack pack.
Related terms
Adjective
AB (not comparable)
- Initialism of airborne.
- Initialism of antiballistic.
- (baseball) Initialism of at bat.
See also
References
- “AB”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “AB”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Anagrams
Chinese
Etymology
From the first two letters of the English alphabet A and B.
Pronunciation
Determiner
AB
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) two separate (instances)
- 分AB team返工 [Cantonese] ― fan1 ei1 bi1 tim1 faan1 gung1 ― to go to work separated into two teams (i.e. each team goes to work on alternative days)
- 行AB team [Cantonese] ― haang4 ei1 bi1 tim1 ― to install an "AB team" system
- 分AB組/分AB组 [Cantonese] ― fan1 ei1 bi1 zou2 ― to separate into two groups
Related terms
German
Pronunciation
Noun
AB m
- Abbreviation of Anrufbeantworter.
- (apartment listing) Abbreviation of Altbau.
Indonesian
Pronunciation
Noun
AB (first-person possessive ABku, second-person possessive ABmu, third-person possessive ABnya)
- (finance, government, management) Initialism of anggaran belanja.
- Initialism of arah benar.
- (military) Initialism of angkatan bersenjata.
- (business, management) Initialism of administrasi bisnis.
- (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
Malay
Pronunciation
Noun
AB
- (biology) the blood type AB
- Initialism of anggaran belanja (“expense estimate”).
References
Further reading
Romanian
Proper noun
AB
- Abbreviation of Alba, a county in Romania.
Swedish
Alternative forms
- Ab (Finland Swedish, only in the sense "aktiebolag" below)
Noun
AB
- the blood type AB
- Abbreviation of aktiebolag. (corporation; stock company; public limited company)
Anagrams
Turkish
Noun
AB
- the blood type AB
Proper noun
AB
- (politics) Initialism of Avrupa Birliği (European Union)