la
noun
the syllable used for the sixth tone of a diatonic scale.
la
1 American
[lah]
/ lɑ /
noun
Music.
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las
plural
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the syllable used for the sixth tone of a diatonic scale.
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(in the fixed system of solmization) the tone A.
la
2
American
[law, lah]
/ lɔ, lɑ /
interjection
Archaic or Dialect.
La
3
American
Symbol, Chemistry.
LA
4
American
abbreviation
La.
5
American
abbreviation
L.A.
6
American
abbreviation
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Latin America.
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Law Agent.
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Library Association.
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Local Agent.
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Los Angeles.
LA
1
British
abbreviation
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Legislative Assembly
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Library Association
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local agent
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Los Angeles
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Louisiana
La
2
British
symbol
La.
3
British
abbreviation
la
4
British
/ lɑː /
noun
la
5
British
/ lɔː /
interjection
la
6
British
abbreviation
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of la1
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at gamut
Origin of la2
before 1150; Middle English, Old English; weak variant of lā lo 1
Vocabulary lists containing la
Example Sentences
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Crowds of teenagers marched from the Place de la République in Paris, calling for more resources for schools, and what they called less repression from police.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
It came at a time when Spanish football was harder to consume for UK audiences, before the peak Revista de la Liga era, making McManaman, renowned for his dribbling and creativity, something of an enigma.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Kids play at a park in Sagua la Grande, a city in central Cuba, although many rides are in disrepair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Beata de la Sablonière liked art, or at least she enlisted her painter cousin to paint her relatives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
The Palais de Justice was located on the Île de la Cité, an island in the middle of the Seine in the heart of the city.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
He cycled to training and lived among students who had no idea their quiet classmate would soon be starting in La Liga.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
He has more than two decades’ worth of elite coaching experience, including stints in the English Premier League, Spain’s La Liga and Argentina’s top division.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The public prosecutor's offices in Santa Cruz and La Paz were also targeted in the nationwide raids, according to images broadcast by local media.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
More than that, though, there was the person-to-person interplay: jokes about who’s taller, jokes about who’s the better singer, jokes about who knows the difference between La Cienega and La Brea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The mention of our grandmother made me physically jerk in my seat—it was so reminiscent of what La Llorona had said I should do.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
"This time there were a lot of global athletes at this event, so the MVP gives me a lot of confidence that I can make the podium in LA," the 20-year-old said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Measure LA would change the way public works are administered in Los Angeles, allow the city to lease its underused land to tenants and open the door to greater city involvement in business enterprises.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
LA local news stations regularly break into live programming to broadcast high-speed police pursuits from the air, fly over wildfires and show accidents, protests, and holiday traffic jams in often unscripted, real-time aerials.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Hanna Kang writes for the LA Local, a nonprofit news site covering Los Angeles communities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
As she and her friends sang, Lily said, it was as if the music drifted up into the sky and hovered over all of LA.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
The last major U.S. refinery came online in Garyville, La., in 1977, with an original capacity for 200,000 barrels of fuels a day.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Zuckerberg noted that teachers in Richland Parish, La., received a $50,000 bonus this year due to the increased revenue from Meta’s data-center project.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Romer grew up in a trailer park in New York but moved to Lafayette, La., as a young adult with her partner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
National Park Service outlined a possible runaway route stretching on the Camino Real de la Tejas between Natchitoches, La., to Monclova, Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
“I’m sorry, La. I don’t mean to keep pushing this, but I need to know with one hundred percent certainty that you understand the situation and that you will not interfere with the gold Flash.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Alan Rothenberg recalls the challenges the Kings faced in their early years as the team tried to establish Jack Kent Cooke’s vision for hockey in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Schecter’s family, in a statement provided to The Times by White, criticized L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
In 1967, we played L.A. gigs and changed our name to the Nazz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
A separate presentation to the board will note that the county education office has “conditionally” approved the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
There was an advertisement for Hermes Delivery Service, and another for the All-New Compendium of L.A.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
The Spanish had their own name, Canada de las Uvas, grapes canyon, for the wild Cimarron grapes flourishing there, which sounds a whole lot more romantic than “Tejon Pass.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
A few blocks away, at the edge of las Letras, I pass the Ateneo de Madrid.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
Claudia de las Casas, 17, who turned out to see the pope in Tenerife with her mother, said she was "moved" by his focus on the plight of migrants.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Later Spanish theologians, such as Francisco de Vitoria and Bartolomé de las Casas, used innate reason to defend the inviolable humanity of Native Americans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
“Then you have to check out las playas en Manatí and make sure to visit el Morro.”
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
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