lazar

American  

[laz-er, ley-zer] / ˈlæz ər, ˈleɪ zər /

noun

1. a person infected with a disease, especially leprosy.

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lazar British  

/ ˈlæzə /

noun

1. an archaic word for leper

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Other Word Forms

• lazar-like adjective
• lazarlike adjective

Etymology

Origin of lazar

1300–50; Middle English < Medieval Latin lazarus leper, special use of Late Latin Lazarus Lazarus

Example Sentences

Perhaps they were dizzied by the lazar pens shone from the stands into a number of visiting players’ eyes over the course of the evening.

From The Guardian

Still, I haven't any home, you see, and I'm not sure that a lazar hospital of some kind isn't what is awaiting me.

From Project Gutenberg

If, with much pains, and some success, I have drawn a deformed piece, there is as much of art, and as near an imitation of nature, in a lazar, as in a Venus.

From Project Gutenberg

If there was a period of comparative rest and peace in that lazar ship, choked to the gunwales with human nature's foulest disorders, it was between the second and third hour after midnight.

From Project Gutenberg

The church was empty, save for the mumbling, croaking, mad lazar.

From Project Gutenberg