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fl.

 
1. floor.
2. florin.
3. flourished. Origin:
< L flōruit
4. fluid.
5. (in the Netherlands) guilder; guilders.
Origin:
< D florin

flo⋅ru⋅it

  [floh-roo-it; Eng. flawr-yoo-it, flohr-, flor-]
–noun Latin.
he (or she) flourished: used to indicate the period during which a person flourished, esp. when the exact birth and death dates are unknown. Abbreviation: fl., flor.

guil⋅der

  [gil-der]
–noun
1. a silver or nickel coin and monetary unit of the Netherlands, equal to 100 cents; florin. Abbreviation: Gld.,f.,fl.
2. a former gold coin of the Netherlands; florin.
3. the monetary unit of the Netherlands Antilles and Suriname, equal to 100 cents.
4. the Austrian florin.
5. any of various gold coins formerly issued by German states.
Also, gilder.
Also called gulden.

Origin:
1425–75; late ME gilder, guldren, with intrusive r < MD gulden gulden
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fl.  
abbr.  

  1. floor

  2. floruit

  3. fluid

flo·ru·it   (flôr'yōō-ĭt, -ōō-, flōr'-, flŏr'-)   
n.   Abbr. fl.
The period during which a person, school, or movement was most active or flourishing.

[Latin flōruit, third person sing. perfect tense of flōrēre, to flourish; see flourish.]
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Word Origin & History

floruit 
used now mainly in sense of "period during which a historical person's life work was done," 1843, from L., lit. "he flourished," third person singular perf. indic. of florere (see flourish). Usually in abbreviation fl.

guilder 
Du. coin, c.1481, from Du. gulden, lit. "golden."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
fl.

  1. flanker

  2. floor

  3. Latin floruit (flourished)

  4. flourished

  5. fluid

  6. flute

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