Meaning of lar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. singular of lares: a household god, particularly overseeing the family itself.
   Roman, form-of, in-plural, singular
2. An Etruscan title, properly peculiar to the eldest son, but often mistaken for an integral part of the name.
   historical
3. Abbreviation of liquid argon (“a liquid composed of the liquid phase of molecular (atomic) argon (Ar)”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
4. singular of Lares.
   form-of, singular
5. A lar gibbon (Hylobates lar).
6. Abbreviation of low anterior resection.
   abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable

Examples

“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?”

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