Ar
abbreviation
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ARabbreviationannual return.
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A/R
A/Raccount receivable.
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ar-
ar-variant of ad- before r: arrears.
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-ar
-arvariant of the adjective-forming suffix -al, joined to words in which an l precedes the suffix: circular; lunar; singular .
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ar.
ar.abbreviationarrival.
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a.r.
a.r.abbreviationall risks.
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A.R.
A.R.abbreviationannual return.
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Ar.
Ar.abbreviationArabia(n)
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ar
arabbreviationArgentina
Ar
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Ar
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American
Symbol, Chemistry.
AR
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American
A/R
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American
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a/r
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account receivable.
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accounts receivable.
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American
-ar
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American
-ar
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ar.
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arrival.
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arrive; arrives.
a.r.
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A.R.
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American
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annual return.
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Army Regulation; Army Regulations.
AR
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Arkansas
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Autonomous Region
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Also: A/R. (in the US and Canada) accounts receivable
Ar.
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Arabia(n)
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Also: Ar. Arabic
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Ar
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a.r.
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Usage
What else does AR mean? AR can stand for hundreds of things, but here are three of the big ones: augmented reality, alternate reality, and ArmaLite rifle. How do you pronounce AR?[ ey-ahr ]
Etymology
Origin of -ar
< Latin -āris; replacing Middle English -er < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin -āris
Vocabulary lists containing ar
Example Sentences
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Among them are more than 160 prominent figures, including author Ayse Kulin and actress Mujde Ar.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
While most who patronize Ar de Rock don’t go to Mass, she added, some become curious enough to ask about worship times.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
“Is it a sin to put them to work? No,” said Phrakru Samuhan Panyatharo, the abbot of the temple, Wat Pa Ar Jiang.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2023
At the royals' arrival at the Senedd a fanfare will be played, and WNO youth opera will perform Ar Lan y Môr.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2021
He did not come up the course of the Ar like most people, but down, out of the forests of the higher mountainside.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Investigators searched the man’s home and found an “illegally modified AR platform rifle,” a pistol, magazines, ammunition and body armor, among other things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
This past week, a group of AR devotees gathered at the AWE USA conference in Long Beach, Calif. Everyone there is betting that augmented-reality glasses will eventually come out on top.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
According to estimates from activist investor Irenic Capital Management, Snap has spent more than $3.5 billion so far on AR hardware, based on assumptions about average annual spending and the cost of an AR acquisition.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
They will also be able to watch videos, browse the web, play AR games and record what they see through the glasses.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
I knew she would say “Breakfast” And once she did, I went home that afternoon and told my mom that my health teacher said the most important meal of the day is breakfast AR: Ahhh!
From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements
“Automate revenue and coding from clinical activity to reduce administrative overhead, avoid missing charges, reduce A/R days and increase total revenue,” the company’s website says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
"Money that stays too long in A/R is a disaster waiting to happen," Rohr says.
From Inc ● Feb. 19, 2010
Salesmen for the GSCI and other commodity indexes ar- gued that their products were an important way to diversify in- vestment portfolios.
From MSNBC ● Jun. 4, 2014
Starting in fall 1793, British troops began ar- riving in Saint Domingue to reenslave people and return them to their sugar plantations.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
Rolling end over end in a flash flood in a big ar- royo.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
And I, Sam Gribley, felt just wonderful, just wonder- I pushed the raft down the stream and gathered ar- rowleaf bulbs, cattail tubers, bulrush roots, and the nutlike tubers of the sedges.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
It appears as a-, ab-, ac-, ad-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, as in achieve, abbreviate, accede, admire, affix, aggregate, allot, annex, approve, arrive, assign, attract.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Nouns ending in -a, -e, -i, -y, -o, -l, -n, -t, -ar, -ur, -ŭs are Neuter.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
These end in the Nominative Singular in -e, -al, and -ar.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
Some nouns of this decl. take -ar in the gen. sing., especially proper names, such as Hākon, gen.
From Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary by Henry Sweet
Archiās, declension of, 22. -ar, declension of nouns in, 39. arguō, constr.,
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
Instead of the infinitive moods and plural numbers ending in -n as in Holland, the former end in -a, the latter in -ar.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
G, young sporogonium still surrounded by the much enlarged base of the archegonium. h, neck of the archegonium. ar. abortive archegonia, × 12.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell
The Baskerville arms—Ar. a chevron gu. between three hurts, impaling, quarterly, one and four, or, a cross moline az, two and three, gu. a chevron ar. between three mallets or—are painted on the panels.
From Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
Fig. 55.—Longitudinal section of a nearly full-grown sporogonium of Madotheca, which has not, however, broken through the overlying cells, × 25. sp. cavity in which the spores are formed. ar. abortive archegonium.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell
Henry, sonne of the Erl of Derby, first Duk of Lancaster, gave the red rose uncrowned, and his ancestors gave the Fox tayle in his prop. coulor and the ostrich fether ar. the pen ermyn.
C, an older one, × 150. ar. archicarp. sp. young spore sacs.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell
Pay Roll. a.r. 1315-1383.—The pay roll is made out monthly in triplicate, one copy being retained and two copies being sent to the Quartermaster.
From Military Instructors Manual by Oliver Schoonmaker
Drawing on work by the scholar John Wood, Ms. Kimber proposes that Murry was not Mansfield’s most significant emotional and professional relationship; that claim properly belongs to a man called A.R.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
“Indeed, it has become clear to the State, through conversations with more than one person in contact with her, that A.R. is actively thwarting attempts to serve her to avoid coming to court,” Ahsens wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
It’s not the first Indian number to win the award — that would be A.R.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2023
In 2022, McDaniel has seen her career follow the same pattern, creating work that is joyful and poignant: In July, her dance company, Blue13, performed with composer A.R.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2022
Besides some historical works he left a correspondence of considerable political interest, printed in Brieven van A.R.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
They found that Ar. ramidus still favored the kind of C3 plants that apes prefer, suggesting that it was still spending a lot of time in woodlands.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 12, 2012
Ar. wakaijaru, worthless, dirty, wakaijatti lihi, a worthless fellow.
From The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Daniel Garrison Brinton
A cow may be borne by some name, but at present I only recollect that of Vach: to which is accorded, Ar. three cows' heads erased sable.
From Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
Port., and It. forms; perh. of Ar. or Pers. origin.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Ar. with father and mother Cogan, Mrs. George.
From Some Reminiscences of old Victoria by Edgar Fawcett
Helen Holland, from Bodorgan on Anglesey, has run ice cream business Môn ar Lwy for 18 years.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
The United Nations says millions of Afghans ar facing a second winter without enough to eat.
From Reuters ● Jul. 26, 2022
Un ddraig ar y crys, Jules Rimet yn dal i ddisgleirio.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2022
Cam Talbot made 28 saves to help the Wild extended ar franchise record with their 10th straight home win.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 24, 2021
Bryng us in no eggys, for ther ar many schelles.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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