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  • Ara
    Ara
    noun
    the Altar, a southern constellation between Triangulum Australe and Scorpius.
  • ARA
    ARA
    Agricultural Research Administration.
  • A.R.A.
    A.R.A.
    abbreviation
    American Railway Association.

Ara

1 American  
[ey-ruh, air-uh] / ˈeɪ rə, ˈɛər ə /

noun

Astronomy.
Arae genitive
  1. the Altar, a southern constellation between Triangulum Australe and Scorpius.


ARA 2 American  
  1. Agricultural Research Administration.


A.R.A. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. American Railway Association.

  2. Associate of the Royal Academy.


ARA 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Associate of the Royal Academy

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Ara 2 British  
/ ˈɑːrə /

noun

  1. a constellation in the S hemisphere near Scorpius

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Ara

From the Latin word āra altar

Example Sentences

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The mining company said Tuesday it would buy Vacuumschmelze, Ara VAC TopCo and their respective consolidated subsidiaries from Ara Partners.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

Developers and enterprises like using Cursor because of its cost-effective AI product, according to Ara Kharazian, lead economist at Ramp, a financial-technology company tracking how businesses spend on AI.

From MarketWatch Jun. 19, 2026

Beyond Netflix’s big bet on the World Cup slate, it’s not hard to get Ramos and Ara to make further wagers on this year’s tournament.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

Frozen in time yet alive with glamour and spontaneity, these moments are part of a new exhibition in Istanbul featuring previously unseen shots by Turkey's legendary Magnum photographer Ara Guler at the Cannes Film Festival.

From Barron's May 10, 2026

The Learned say, ’tis338 the Ara Ubiorum of the Ancients, mention’d by Tacitus.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Goodwin is the director of advocacy and engagement for the ARA.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

French advocacy group Children's Health also named the company in a court filing, asking the government to order companies to pull all formula with ARA oil produced by Cabio Biotech.

From Barron's Feb. 2, 2026

“With the river levels so low there’s no point in having product in ARA as you can’t move it down the Rhine, and backwardation is discouraging having product in tank,” one European trader said.

From Reuters Aug. 12, 2022

Under the ARA, these families are receiving $3,000 per child and $3,600 for every child under the age of six.

From Salon Nov. 14, 2021

Page 6: Spaced out the OE ligature in ARA COELI.

From A Catalogue of Books Published by Methuen and Co., October 1909 by Methuen & Co.

This year, with 60 hospitals, 200 schools and colleges and nearly 40% of the top 500 U.S. industrial corporations among his customers, A.R.A.

From Time Magazine Archive

When our mission was completed, the entire A.R.A. staff was given a banquet in the Kremlin at which we were told that we had saved 20 million lives.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was elected an A.R.A. in 1833; a Royal Academician in 1839, and subsequently held the offices of Librarian to the Academy, Surveyor of her Majesty's Pictures, and Keeper of the National Gallery.

From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by Koehler, S. R.

The A.R.A. holds that "apprenticeship is no disqualification."

From Rowing by Lehmann, Rudolf Chambers

A brief explanation of some points arising out of the Rules and Regulations of the A.R.A. may be useful.

From Rowing by Lehmann, Rudolf Chambers

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