LLL

English

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Proper noun

LLL

1. La Leche League: international non-profit organisation that promotes breastfeeding.

   Synonym: LLLI

   • 1968 September 5, “La Leche League To Hear Report On Convention”, in The Norwalk Hour‎^[1], page 9:

     The LLL promotes the idea of good mothering through the womanly art of breastfeeding. Some 1,000 mothers and 500 babies from across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina and Johannesburg, South Africa, attended the three-day convention at the Denver Hilton.

   • 1983 September, Derrick Brian Jelliffe, Child Nutrition in Developing Countries: A Handbook for Fieldworkers‎^[2], Peace Corps Information Collection and Exchange, page 123:

     The latter group, known as the La Leche League (LLL), produce a monthly bulletin which can be very useful in this regard, showing, as it does, a modern group of women in an affluent society who believe that breast feeding is worthwhile achieving.

   • 2001, Jacqueline H. Wolf, Don't Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Ohio State University Press, →ISBN, page 248:

     The LLL's founders allied themselves with physicians, albeit unconventional ones, from its very inception.

   • 2021, Ruth A. Lawrence, Robert M. Lawrence, Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Professional, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 4:

     The La Leche League (LLL), formed in 1956—for women, by mothers—to provide education, practical guidance, and support for women in their efforts to breastfeed and "mother" their children. Mothers were empowered with new knowledge and trust from experienced mothers, and the LLL produced a book, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, and continued its expansion internationally.

Usage notes

• Although La Leche League was formally renamed to La Leche League International (LLLI) in 1964, its former name, and the LLL initialism, remain more common.

Noun

LLL

1. (chiefly education, career) Initialism of lifelong learning.
   • 1978, Educational and Psychological Interactions, numbers 65–72, Department of Educational and Psychological Research, page 19:

     Number of lines favourable to lifelong learning ("LLL") belonging to the main criteria divided between sub-categories, expressed in a percentage of the total number of lines in the curriculum for the basic school.

   • 1995, Paul Bélanger, Ettore Gelpi, Lifelong Education, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 354:

     Lifelong learning (LLL), as we see it, is not a norm to prescribe, but an empirical reality to analyse and reconstruct. There are different processes of transformation at work in education, and there are many "lifelong educations" (Giere*). LLL in each society refers to the totality of learning activities which, for analytical purposes, can be broken into three specific constituent elements…

   • 2013, Ellu Saar, Odd Bjorn Ure, Lifelong Learning in Europe, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 206:

     If these ambitions are to become reality, various education and training practices need to support the aims of LLL. Research on possible transformations of national education and training systems into a state of lifelong learning should look into the policy interventions behind the efforts to put the systems on an LLL track.

2. (medicine) Initialism of left lower lobe (one of two lobes of the left lung).
3. (programming) Initialism of low-level language.
4. (slang, rare) Initialism of live, laugh, love.