Ar
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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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arabbreviationArgentina
Ar
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Ar
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American
Symbol, Chemistry.
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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
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American
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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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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
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
Her imam, Musa Kabba, of Masjid Ar Rahmah, said she was away from the apartment for up to 40 minutes before fire trucks arrived.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2019
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
For the category to be successful, AR glasses need to be less bulky, do more, put fashion first, and be cheaper.
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
Rolling end over end in a flash flood in a big ar- royo.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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
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
There was something about the Chancellor that pleased me, and a kind of involuntary impulse took me on board, where I found the internal ar- rangements perfectly comfortable.
From The Survivors of the Chancellor by Jules Verne
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
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
Archiās, declension of, 22. -ar, declension of nouns in, 39. arguō, constr.,
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
Crest—"A lion's gamb couped ar., grasping a broken tilting lance, the spear end pendant gu."
From Dorothy Payne, Quakeress A Side-Light upon the Career of 'Dolly' Madison by Ella Kent Barnard
F, a female prothallium, seen from below, × 12. ar. archegonia.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell
The shield was—Per fesse embattled, ar. and sa., three falcons, belted, countercharged—a bend sinister.
From Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850 by Various
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
This stage is called the gastrula stage; ar. is the cavity of the gastrula, the archenteron; b.p. is its opening or blastopore.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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
Public Theater, producing work by playwrights like A.R.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 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
A.R. speaks of having referred to Purcell's Tempest.
From Notes and Queries, 1850.12.21 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by George Bell
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. with husband; now widow in this city Scott, Mrs. William.
From Some Reminiscences of old Victoria by Edgar Fawcett
Ar. eme or uime, the mouth of a river, uimelian, to be new.
From The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Daniel Garrison Brinton
Ar. akkuyaha, the spirit of a living animal.
From The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Daniel Garrison Brinton
Ar. terén to be hot, glowing, terehü heat.
From The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Daniel Garrison Brinton
"We decided to change it to Ty ar Gynnydd, which means 'house on the rise' because of its beautiful views, and we were now living in Wales for one last adventure."
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2022
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
The pianos plink along softly; it sounds as if a dozen are playing all ar once, as if the sound comes from every point of the compass.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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