Meaning of Lara | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia
2. A female given name from Russian or Ukrainian.
3. A surname.

Equivalents

Examples

“Long after the divorce, Moran maintained the habit of giving her name⟳ as Lara to the Starbucks baristas. She had once met another Lara at Logan airport, both of them waiting for their coffees, both stepping forward⟳ when summoned. The other Lara said her parents had gone through a period of thinking that everything Russian was holy,and had named her Larissa―Lara―after the heroine of a Russian novel. Later, her parents left their hippie-hood behind and gave her younger sisters more normal names: Jennifer, Molly, Aimee.”

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