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

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 Literature

His company has since blossomed into a multimillion-dol lar enterprise.

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Because Amaro is her spiritual guide as well as her lover, Amelia comes to exist in a kind of circu lar spiritual slavery.

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Until last July, Welfare laws refused even to recognize the psychological motive of incentive: every penny of every dol lar earned by a welfare recipient was deducted from his benefits.

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the dignity of congressional membership, especially in the Senate, that the popu- lar "you may" is almost inevitably superseded by the congressional "we do."

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