Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Prefixed to the name of a woman, with ironic effect (as though an opera prima donna).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ironic, not-comparable, often
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intj
Represents the sound of music or singing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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intj
Used to introduce a statement with emphatic or intensive effect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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intj
Expressing surprise, anger. etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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name
Initialism of Los Angeles: a city in California, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
Abbreviation of Louisiana: a state of the United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
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name
Abbreviation of Ladakh: a union territory of India.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
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name
Abbreviation of Lower Arkansas, also in reference to the state of Louisiana.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, humorous
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name
Abbreviation of Lampung: a province of Indonesia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
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name
Initialism of Las Anod: a city in Somalia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
Initialism of Linear A.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
A surname
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Initialism of left atrium.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
Initialism of lead arsenate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: chemistry, inorganic-chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
Initialism of local anesthetic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
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noun
Initialism of lateral area.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Initialism of local authority.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.
Sometimes syllable for both the third and the sixth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
lad, kid
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Liverpool
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noun
Abbreviation of lane
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
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noun
Alternative form of LA.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
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noun
Abbreviation of lane (in street addresses).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
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particle
Placed at the end of a sentence in imperatives making it sound more like a request than an order.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Hong-Kong, colloquial
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particle
Used to tone down comments.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Hong-Kong, colloquial
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particle
Alternative form of lah.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Hong-Kong, Manglish, Singlish, alt-of, alternative, colloquial
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noun
the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: lah
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Broader terms: solfa syllable
noun
a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Louisiana, Pelican State
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Broader terms: American state
noun
a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: lanthanum, atomic number 57
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Broader terms: metallic element, metal
History
From French la, Italian la.
Sound used to form meaningless song refrains. Of imitative origin. Compare Old English lā (a common exclamation), Ancient Greek λαλαγε (lalage, “babble”), German lallen (“to babble”).
From Middle English la, from Old English lā. More at lo.
From Glover's solmization, from Middle English la (“sixth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian la in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin labiī (“lip's”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.
Possibly a shortened form of lad.
Abbreviation.
From LA
From la., from lane
From Cantonese 啦 (laa1). Doublet of lah.
Across languages
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
