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NFL

  • /ɛn ɛf ɛl/

Rhymes with -ɛl

proper noun N.F.L.

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of National Football League Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate who gained national acclaim at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, will recite an original poem before Super Bowl LV, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced on Wednesday.
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Newfoundland and Labrador

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of no free lunch, applied to various restricting theorems. First off, let us be clear that the No Free Lunch theorems that underwrite the displacement problem apply with perfect generality—NFL applies to any information that might supplement a blind search, and not just to fitness functions.
  2. UK, metonymically, uncountable 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.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: soccer, football, ball, league, lnp, futbol, ligue, nlg, nhl, nba, mlb, superbowl, espn, pittsburgh, afl, brady

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MLA

"NFL." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/nfl. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

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

Chicago

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

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@misc{nfl_2026,
  title = {NFL},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nfl},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}