Meaning of La | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of left atrium.
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2. Initialism of Los Angeles: a city in California, United States.
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3. Sixth tone of the diatonic scale.
4. A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.
5. lad, kid
6. Abbreviation of lane (in street addresses).
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7. Initialism of lead arsenate.
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8. Abbreviation of Louisiana: a state of the United States.
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9. Initialism of local anesthetic.
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10. Abbreviation of Ladakh: a union territory of India.
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11. Initialism of lateral area.
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12. Abbreviation of Lower Arkansas, also in reference to the state of Louisiana.
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13. Initialism of local authority.
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14. Abbreviation of Lampung: a province of Indonesia.
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15. Initialism of Las Anod: a city in Somalia.
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16. Initialism of Linear A.
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Examples

“LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets god-awful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.”

“Speaking as an LA native, this is the longest earthquake I’ve ever felt!”

“And now Mrs Waters (for we must confess she was in the same bed), being, I suppose, awakened from her sleep, and seeing two men fighting in her bedchamber, began to scream in the most violent manner, crying out murder! robbery! and more frequently rape! which last, some, perhaps, may wonder she should mention, who do not consider that these words of exclamation are used by ladies in a fright, as fa, la, la, ra, da, &c., are in music, only as the vehicles of sound, and without any fixed ideas.”

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