Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

LTR

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. long-term relationship.

ltr. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. letter.

  2. lighter.

LTR British  

abbreviation

  1. long-term relationship: used in lonely hearts columns and personal advertisements

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

To identify solo-LTRs, we first excluded intact LTR transposable elements from the dataset of Gypsy and Copia LTR-retrotransposons, and aligned all known LTR segments to those damaged LTR-retrotransposons.

From Nature • May 8, 2018

LTR retrotransposons were distributed unevenly throughout each chromosome.

From Nature • May 8, 2018

You're establishing a LTR with a bunch of unicellular organisms.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2016

To create this groundbreaking new program, Burton gathered a group of experienced women riders and girls who had never snowboarded before to help design and develop Women's LTR.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The Women's LTR Program is a perfect opportunity for women to add the fun of snowboarding to their lives in a comfortable, safe environment," says Burton Global Team rider Victoria Jealouse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.