lazar

[ laz-er, ley-zer ]

noun

1. a person infected with a disease, especially leprosy.

lazar

/ ˈlæzə /

noun

1. See leper
   an archaic word for leper

Derived Forms

• ˈlazar-ˌlike, adjective

Other Words From

• lazar·like adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of lazar¹

1300–50; Middle English < Medieval Latin lazarus leper, special use of Late Latin Lazarus Lazarus

Word History and Origins

Origin of lazar¹

C14: via Old French and Medieval Latin, after Lazarus

Example Sentences

I meet Allie Lazar in Palermo Viejo on the last night of my search.

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The stranger was Swifty Lazar, super-agent to stars such as Humphrey Bogart and Gene Kelly.

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I urged Lazar to get his eyes back on the road, if indeed he could see it, and asked why the subject was taboo.

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Lazar never minded, he would just say, “OK, how much will you give me for Gene Kelly then?”

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Evening's Empire by Zachary Lazar A son untangles the events leading up to the mob hit on his accountant father in 1970s Phoenix.

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Skeat postulates a mute vowel by deriving lazar or leper from Eleazer—He whom God assists.

From Project Gutenberg

The inmates of lazar hospitals were in the habit of begging in the market-places.

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He stopped on his way to visit a lazar-house, and help in the care of the lepers.

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Not only did the Turks put him to death, but they decapitated their prisoner, Prince Lazar, and all the other chiefs.

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Over some of our Scotch lazar-houses, chaplains, and religious officers with the high-church title of priors, were placed.

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