lar
noun
any of the Lares.
lar
American
[lahr]
/ lɑr /
noun
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lares,
plural
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lars
plural
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(initial capital letter) any of the Lares.
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Zoology. white-handed gibbon.
LAR
1
British
abbreviation
lar
2
British
/ lɑː /
noun
lar
3
British
/ lɑː /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of lar
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1580–90
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The controversy began on Monday when Vikram posted the video of himself playing with the lar gibbon on Instagram.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Records cited by the official show that on 5 June this year, one male and two female lar gibbons were transferred from Manipur to a person in Perundurai in Tamil Nadu's Erode district.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
And both the lar and western hook Gibbon cross forest gaps.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 15, 2020
But so popu- lar have the Klingons become over the decades that theirs is the most widely spoken fictional language in the world, according to Guinness World Records.
From Time ● Jul. 21, 2016
The word quart is supposed to be pronounced like quart, but with a ^ at the end instead of a t, but is usually pronounced to rhyme with lar\.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
Three years later, a European consortium -- Lobito Atlantic Railway, or LAR -- won a 30‑year concession to operate the line, transport minerals and manage Lobito's mineral terminal.
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
LAR has also transported cobalt, packaged in one-tonne bags, and could carry other minerals either in bulk or packaged form.
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
LAR began operations in 2023 and is responsible for freight traffic on the Angolan section of the line, moving mining-related cargo as well as supplying fuel and gas to the country's interior.
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
Patient numbers dictate that the focus is on finding treatments for patients with basal-like breast cancer, but she is confident about opportunities for the much smaller LAR patient group.
From Nature ● May 30, 2012
The beauteous clouds, tho' daylight's Star Had sunk behind the hills of LAR, Were still with lingering glories bright.—
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
Tiny statues, or lares, within the shrine represented these ancestors, and Romans made daily offerings to them.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
The finds unveiled on Saturday include furnishings and household objects in the domus, which was dubbed the House of the Larario for an area of a home devoted to domestic spirits known as lares.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
Her lares and penates range from Ella Fitzgerald to Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each parish had its magistrate, its officers, its chapel built upon the boundary road for the public worship of the lares compitales, the protecting spirits of the district.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
"Jove," he murmured, "it's good to be back again to the lares and penates."
From Fairfax and His Pride by Marie Van Vorst
The supply from the U.S. had been cut because of Britain's shortage of dol lars.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today some U.S. officials believe that the banks shield dol lars that have evaded U.S. taxes and foreign aid funds diverted by grafters in underdeveloped nations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since this free dom lowers the bank's costs, it can pay perhaps 1% more interest on the dol lars deposited with it abroad than in the U.S., and it can offer loans at lower rates.
From Time Magazine Archive
The U.S. will therefore swap its borrowed currency for dollars held by foreign countries that need hard currencies to pay off debts to the IMF but cannot use dol lars to do so.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Well, Mas’r Harry, I do wish to,” said Tom; “and that ain’t nowise wonderful, when I was hard at work all lars night.”
From The Golden Magnet by George Manville Fenn
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