lar

American  

[lahr] / lɑr /

noun

plural

lares, lars

1. (initial capital letter) any of the Lares.

2. Zoology. white-handed gibbon.

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LAR ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. Libya (international car registration)

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lar ² British  

/ lɑː /

noun

1. the singular of lares See lares and penates

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lar ³ British  

/ lɑː /

noun

1. dialect a boy or young man

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Etymology

Origin of lar

Borrowed into English from Latin around 1580–90

Example Sentences

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

Artist Rouault was born in a Paris cel lar during the insurrection of the Com mune of 1871.

From Time Magazine Archive

But such is the dignity of congressional membership, especially in the Senate, that the popu- lar "you may" is almost inevitably superseded by the congressional "we do."

From Time Magazine Archive

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