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# fa

«fa» in Mova's school dictionary: **The fourth note of the musical scale in the sol-fa…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (fa, fah — a music note); also an abbreviation (FA)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (music) The fourth note of the musical scale in the sol-fa system: do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do. Also spelt «fah». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fa/#m1)

2) (UK, sport) «The FA» is the Football Association, which runs football in England, including the FA Cup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fa/#m2)

3) (slang, as «sweet FA») Nothing at all — a rude-ish British phrase, as in «He did sweet FA all day». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fa/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In music lessons, children sing «do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do», as in the song «Do-Re-Mi» from «The Sound of Music» («Fa, a long long way to run»). In sport, the FA Cup is a famous English football competition. «Sweet FA» is a cheeky, slightly rude phrase best avoided at school.

### examples

- Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fa/#x1)
- «Fa» is the fourth note of the scale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fa/#x2)
- We sang «Fa, a long, long way to run» in music. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fa/#x3)
- My team won a match in the FA Cup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fa/#x4)
- The FA makes the rules for English football. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fa/#x5)
- (rude, UK) He did sweet FA to help tidy up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fa/#x6)

### note

Not an ordinary English word on its own. «Fa» rhymes with «car». In the music sense it is lower case; FA for the football body is capital letters. «Sweet FA» is a rude euphemism, so use «nothing at all» at school.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fa» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fa/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.