lar

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Scrabble points
3
Words With Friends
4
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/lɑː/
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/lɑː/ · /lɑɹ/(US)

Definition of lar

8 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Roman, form-of, in-plural, singular)singular of lares: a household god, particularly overseeing the family itself.
    “Would the great emperor’s lar, free of its soldierly body rheumatic from German mists and browned and grizzled by the Indus sun, haunt that pinedark road to Elefsis to taste again the essences on which it fed and gather with voluptuous fingers the ghosts of roses?”
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noun

  1. (Roman, form-of, in-plural, singular)singular of lares: a household god, particularly overseeing the family itself.
    “Would the great emperor’s lar, free of its soldierly body rheumatic from German mists and browned and grizzled by the Indus sun, haunt that pinedark road to Elefsis to taste again the essences on which it fed and gather with voluptuous fingers the ghosts of roses?”
  2. A lar gibbon (Hylobates lar).
  3. (historical)An Etruscan title, properly peculiar to the eldest son, but often mistaken for an integral part of the name.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable)Abbreviation of liquid argon (“a liquid composed of the liquid phase of molecular (atomic) argon (Ar)”).
  5. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable)Alternative form of LAr (liquid argon)
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable)Abbreviation of low anterior resection.
  7. (form-of, singular)singular of Lares.

particle

  1. (Manglish, Singlish, alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of lah.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lār (“ancestral deity or spirit”) from Etruscan.

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