AfD

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AfD¹

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Borrowed from German AfD (“Alternative für Deutschland”).

proper noun AFD

  1. German Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland), a right-wing German political party. The country’s mainstream conservatives, as polls predicted, won the largest share of votes in Sunday’s election according to official preliminary results and will be looking to form the next government, while the AfD came in second.

AfD²

noun AfDs · AFD

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of articles for deletion, a process on the English Wikipedia for deleting articles through discussion. When you nominate an article for deletion using the AfD process, you get to a point in the process where you have to give a reason.

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name Alternative für Deutschland

EspañolAfD
DeutschAfD, Alternative für Deutschland

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"AfD." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/afd. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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AfD. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/afd

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"AfD." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/afd.

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@misc{afd_2026,
  title = {AfD},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/afd},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}