AfD

See also: AFD and afd

English

Alternative forms

AFD

Etymology 1

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

Proper noun

AfD

(German politics) Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland), a right-wing German political party.
- 2025 February 24, Sophie Tanno, Nadine Schmidt, “Germany’s far-right may be frozen out of power, but the AfD is now a powerful force”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 April 2025:
  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.

Coordinate terms

Alternative für Deutschland

Translations

Alternative für Deutschland

German: AfD (de) f, Alternative für Deutschland f
Polish: AfD (pl) n
Spanish: AfD f

Etymology 2

Noun

AfD (countable and uncountable, plural AfDs)

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of articles for deletion, a process on the English Wikipedia for deleting articles through discussion.
- 2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 374:
  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.
- 2008, P. Ayers, C. Matthews, B. Yates, How Wikipedia Works, San Francisco: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 223:
  Anyone can discuss AfD nominations by simply going to the main AfD page and adding a signed comment with his or her opinion about whether to keep or delete the article being discussed
- 2012, J. Schneider, A. Passant, S. Decker, “Deletion discussions in Wikipedia”, in Cliff Lampe, editor, WikiSym '12 (conference proceedings), New York: ACM, →ISBN:
  After 7 days, AfD discussions are reviewed by an uninvolved user or administrator who attempts to determine the consensus.
- 2022 November 16, Elisabeth Joyce, Pinar Oztoruk, Jacqueline C. Pike, “Effective Organizing on the Fly: Social Capital in Temporary Organizations”, in Journal of Computer Information Systems, volume 63, number 5, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1213-1227:
  Intra-organizational social capital was measured with the variable Experienced Participant Early Intervention. This variable was created through the identification of the most active participants in the AfDs and whether they contributed within the first 48 hours of the deliberation.

Anagrams

F.D.A., ADF, DFA, FDA, fad, FAD, DAF, D.F.A., daf

German

Pronunciation

Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file)

Proper noun

die AfD f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der AfD)

(German politics) AfD: initialism of Alternative für Deutschland (“right-wing German political party”, literally “Alternative for Germany”)
- 2025 May 8, “Verfassungsschutz erklärt in AfD-Eilverfahren Stillhaltezusage”, in Der Spiegel‎^[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 8 May 2025:
  Die nun vom BfV gegebene Stillhaltezusage bezieht sich nicht nur auf öffentliche Äußerungen, sondern bedeutet auch, dass der Verfassungsschutz die AfD bis zu einem Urteil nicht als gesichert extremistische Bestrebung beobachten kann.
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Declension

Declension of AfD [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	die	AfD
genitive	der	AfD
dative	der	AfD
accusative	die	AfD

Hypernyms

Partei

Coordinate terms

Alternative für Deutschland

Derived terms

AfDler

Descendants

→ English: AfD
→ Spanish: AfD

Spanish

Etymology

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

Proper noun

AfD f

(German politics) Alternativa para Alemania; AfD.
- 2025 July 7, Sophie Tanno, “Aumentan los llamados para prohibir al partido ultraderechista AfD en Alemania, pese a su creciente popularidad”, in CNN en Español‎^[3], archived from the original on 26 July 2025:
  En mayo, la agencia de inteligencia interna del país clasificó formalmente a la AfD como una entidad extremista que representa una amenaza para la democracia.
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