lar

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UK/lɑː/US/lɑɹ/

noun

A lar gibbon (Hylobates lar).

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Ar
OriginLatin lār →
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Meanings

lar1

nounlar (plural lars or lares)

plural lars · plural lares

  1. Romanin pluralsingularhuman sciencessingular of lares: a household god, particularly overseeing the family itself.

    Would the great emperor’s lar, free of its soldierly body rheumatic from German mists and browned and grizzled by the Indus sun, haunt that pinedark road to Elefsis to taste again the essences on which it fed and gather with voluptuous fingers the ghosts of roses?

    1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!
  2. A lar gibbon (Hylobates lar).

lar2

noun

alternative lars

  1. historicalAn Etruscan title, properly peculiar to the eldest son, but often mistaken for an integral part of the name.

lar3

particle
  1. ManglishSinglishalternativeAlternative spelling of lah.

LAr4

nounLAr (uncountable)

alternative LAR

  1. abbreviationuncountableAbbreviation of liquid argon (“a liquid composed of the liquid phase of molecular (atomic) argon (Ar)”).

    Synonyms: Ar

LAR5

nounLAR (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of LAr (liquid argon)
  2. abbreviationuncountablemedicineAbbreviation of low anterior resection.

Lar6

nounLar (plural Lares)

plural Lares

  1. singularsingular of Lares.

    Lest any marvel who I am, I shall Briefly declare it. I am the family Lar Of this house whence you see me coming out.

    1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 234

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
ar(l)household deitylar gibbon

Origin

lar · noun

  1. Latinlār“ancestral deity or spirit”
  2. Englishlar

Borrowed from Latin lār (“ancestral deity or spirit”) from Etruscan.

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lar · noun

  1. Latin[Term?]
  2. Englishlar

From Latin [Term?].

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with lar

areourtheirrcarstarmarfarbarguitarvaravatarcharpartarQatarMyanmarjarcigarcarrnoirharomardar
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APA

lar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lar

MLA

“lar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lar. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lar,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lar.

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