Usually means: Mythical being with pointed ears.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. ELF, elf: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ELF, elf: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ELF, elf: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elf: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ELF, elf: Vocabulary.com
  6. Elf, elf: Wordnik
  7. elf: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ELF, elf: Wiktionary
  9. elf: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ELF, elf: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. elf: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ELF: Dictionary.com
  13. elf: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. elf: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. ELF, Elf (Broadway musical), Elf (Dungeons & Dragons), Elf (Middle-earth), Elf (Tolkien), Elf (album), Elf (band), Elf (cosmetics), Elf (disambiguation), Elf (film), Elf (movie), Elf (musical), Elf (yacht), Elf, The E.L.F: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Elf: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. elf: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. elf: Rhymezone
  19. Elf (f), Elf, elf: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. elf: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ELF: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Elf: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. elf: Free Dictionary
  24. elf: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. ELF: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ELF: Financial dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ELF: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. ELF: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  5. ELF, Elf (RPG): Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. eLF: Acronym Finder
  3. ELF: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ELF: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. elf: The Folk File
  2. E.L.F: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. elf: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See elfing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (Norse mythology) A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of Álfheim (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy.
noun:  Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. They are usually delicate-featured and skilled in magic or spellcrafting; sometimes depicted as clashing with dwarves and orcs, especially in modern fantasy literature.
noun:  (fantasy) Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse álfar (through Tolkien's Eldar).
noun:  A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
noun:  (South Africa) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
verb:  (now rare) To twist into elflocks (of hair); to mat.
noun:  (file format) Acronym of Executable and Linking Format (a common object file format for Unix)
noun:  (electronics) Initialism of extremely low frequency. [(electronics) The band of radio frequencies from 3 to 30 hertz.]
noun:  (linguistics) Acronym of English as a Lingua Franca (English used by non-native speakers)
noun:  Initialism of Earth Liberation Front (a radical environmentalism group)
noun:  Initialism of Elvish Linguistic Fellowship (an organization that studies the invented languages of J. R. R. Tolkien)
noun:  Initialism of Endangered Language Fund (a non-profit organization)

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