Abbreviation for Alcoholics Anonymous.
1 administrative assistant
2 Alcoholics Anonymous
3 antiaircraft
4 associate in arts
5 author's alterations

Anti-Aircraft Artillery
American Automobile Association
Amateur Athletic Association.

Množina: Aachens

(French Aix-la-Chapelle).
German cathedral city and spa in the administrative region (German Land) of North Rhine–Westphalia, 72 km/45 mi SW of Cologne; population (1991) 244,400. It has thriving electronic, glass, and rubber industries, and is one of Germany’s principal railroad junctions. Aachen was the Roman Aquisgranum, and from the time of Charlemagne until 1531 the German emperors were crowned here. Charlemagne was born and buried in Aachen, and founded the cathedral 796.
The 14th-century town hall, containing the hall of the emperors, is built on the site of Charlemagne's palace.
In World War II, Aachen was the first German city to be taken by the Allies when it was captured by the US 1st Army Oct 1944.
City W Germany near Belgian and Dutch borders population 241,861.

Množina: aardvarks

ETYM Dutch, earth-pig.
Nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole surviving representative of the order Tubulidentata; SYN. ant bear, anteater, Orycteropus afer.
Nocturnal mammal Orycteropus afer, order Tubulidentata, found in central and southern Africa. A timid, defenseless animal about the size of a pig, it has a long head, piglike snout, and large asinine ears. It feeds on termites, which it licks up with its long sticky tongue.

Množina: aardwolves

ETYM Dutch, earth-wolf.
Striped mammal of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects; SYN. Proteles cristata.
Striped, hyenalike mammal of S Africa.
Nocturnal mammal Proteles cristatus of the hyena family, Hyaenidae. It is found in eastern and southern Africa, usually in the burrows of the aardvark, and feeds on termites, eating up to 300,000 per day.

Množina: Aarons

A brother of Moses and high priest of the Hebrews.
In the Old Testament, the elder brother of Moses and coleader of the Hebrews in their march from Egypt to the Promised Land of Canaan. He made the Golden Calf for the Hebrews to worship when they despaired of Moses' return from Mount Sinai, yet was allowed to continue as high priest.
All his descendants are hereditary high priests, called the cohanim, or cohens, and maintain a special place in worship and ceremony in the synagogue. The lesser services are performed by Levites.

Množina: Aaron's beards

Aaron's rod.

1. Of or stemming from Aaron
2. Of or relating to the lower order of the Mormon priesthood

1. Of or stemming from Aaron
2. Of or relating to the lower order of the Mormon priesthood

Množina: aasvogels

(S African) vulture.