la

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of left atrium.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of lead arsenate.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of local anesthetic.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of lateral area.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of local authority.
6. A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.

   “And now Mrs Waters (for we must confess she was in the same bed), being, I suppose, awakened from her sleep, and seeing two men fighting in her bedchamber, began to scream in the most violent manner, crying out murder! robbery! and more frequently rape! which last, some, perhaps, may wonder she should mention, who do not consider that these words of exclamation are used by ladies in a fright, as fa, la, la, ra, da, &c., are in music, only as the vehicles of sound, and without any fixed ideas.”

7. A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.
8. lad, kid
9. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of lane (in street addresses).
10. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of LA.

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Los Angeles: a city in California, United States.

   “LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets god-awful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.”

   “Speaking as an LA native, this is the longest earthquake I’ve ever felt!”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Louisiana: a state of the United States.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Ladakh: a union territory of India.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, humorous)Abbreviation of Lower Arkansas, also in reference to the state of Louisiana.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Lampung: a province of Indonesia.
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Las Anod: a city in Somalia.
7. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Linear A.

intj

1. Represents the sound of music or singing.

   “"La la la la, I can't hear you!" Jimmy said, sticking his fingers in his ears.”

   “The only part Lucy had to sing was the interlude, which was a bunch of la la la's, and the last verse of the song, which was only four lines, and the chorus, which was just as short.”

2. (obsolete)Used to introduce a statement with emphatic or intensive effect.
3. (archaic)Expressing surprise, anger. etc.

   “La, ma'am, what doth your la'ship think? the girl that your la'ship saw at church on Sunday, whom you thought so handsome; though you would not have thought her so handsome neither, if you had seen her nearer, but to be sure she hath been carried before the justice for being big with child.”

   ““Oh, la! here come the Richardsons. I had a vast deal more to say to you, but I must not stay away from them any longer.””

   “"La, William, don't be so highty-tighty with us. We're not men. We can't fight you," Miss Jane said.”

adj

1. (ironic, not-comparable, often)Prefixed to the name of a woman, with ironic effect (as though an opera prima donna).

   “Following lukewarm on the heels of an article a few weeks ago, where (I paraphrase due to having filed the relevant copy in the recycling bin) Victoria Beckham made a "well-meaning" remark that the other Spice Girls might want to lose a few pounds, we now have a new incidence of La Beckham's scintillating and entirely well-meaning humour.”

   “By judicious leaking, he also managed to make la Kirkpatrick and her associates look rather unsavory.”

   “(You have to wonder where la Wintour finds the time for all this styling: maybe it's a displacement activity to fill the void left by her failure to get the Democratic party into power?)”

particle

1. (Hong-Kong, colloquial)Placed at the end of a sentence in imperatives making it sound more like a request than an order.

   “Sleep la!”

   “Eat shit la you!”

2. (Hong-Kong, colloquial)Used to tone down comments.

   “ok la”

3. (Hong-Kong, Manglish, Singlish, alt-of, alternative, colloquial)Alternative form of lah.