lar

Noun

lar

1. a household or ancestral god in ancient Rome

   • 1974: 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? — Guy Davenport, Tatlin!

2. A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burma. Called also the common or white-handed gibbon.

3 letters in word "lar": A L R.

No anagrams for lar found in this word list.

Words found within lar:

al ar la

• Definitions:
• Lar is a city in Fars Province in the south of Iran. It is the capital of Larestan County. It had an estimated population of 66,377 in 2005.
• (sing. of Lares-tutelary deities of ancient Rome, adopted from the Etruscans; the spirits of departed ancestors presiding over the households of their descendants).
• The technology that reads and recognizes the handwritten or typed legal (written) amount on checks.

• laqueus ←
• laquei ←
• laquearia ←
• lar
• → larbo
• → larboard
• → larboards