name
Meaning 1
A surname from Anglo-Norman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
laver
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
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlɑːvə/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈleɪvə/
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General-American: /ˈleɪvɚ/
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General-American: /ˈlɑvɚ/
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rhymes with -ɑːvə(ɹ)
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rhymes with -eɪvə(ɹ)
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homophone: lava
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homophone: larva (non-rhotic, with the "broad a" pronunciation)
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CMU ARPABET: L EY1 V ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A village in Iran, known for its Kerman carpets.
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noun
Meaning 3
A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially:
Porphyra vulgaris
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
Where one laves, a washroom, particularly a lavatorium, the washing area in a monastery.
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noun
Meaning 7
That which laves, particularly a washbasin.
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noun
Meaning 8
The spiritual washing or ablution of baptism.
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noun
Meaning 9
One who laves: a washer.
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noun
Meaning 10
seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: sea lettuce
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Broader terms: green algae, chlorophyte
noun
Meaning 11
edible red seaweeds
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: red laver
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Broader terms: red algae
noun
Meaning 12
(Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: basin
noun
Meaning 13
Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year; in 1969 he repeated this feat (born in 1938)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Rod Laver, Rodney George Laver
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Broader terms: tennis player
History
Etymology
Occupational surname for a washerman, from Anglo-Norman laver.
From Middle English laver, lavre, lever, levre, laber (“a kind of water plant”), from Old English læfer, leber (“a rush (plant)”), a borrowing from Latin laver (“water plant”).
From Middle English laver, lavour, from Old French laveoir, laveor, laveour, lavor, lavur, from Latin lavātōrium. Doublet of lavatorium and lavatory.
Etymology tree English lave Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English laver From lave + -er.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- German: Nabel-Purpurtang — Porphyra umbilicalis
- German: Purpurtang — Porphyra umbilicalis
- German: Hauttang — Porphyra umbilicalis
- German: Nabel-Hauttang — Porphyra umbilicalis
- Irish: glasarnacht — Porphyra umbilicalis
- Irish: sleabhac — Porphyra umbilicalis
- Korean: 김 (gim) — Porphyra umbilicalis
- Korean: 파래 (parae) — Porphyra umbilicalis
- Scottish Gaelic: slòcan — Porphyra umbilicalis
- Swedish: navelsloke — Porphyra umbilicalis
- Swedish: veckad purpurhinna — Porphyra umbilicalis
- Welsh: lawr — Porphyra umbilicalis
- Welsh: lafwr — Porphyra umbilicalis
- Māori: karengo — an edible seaweed
- Māori: parengo — an edible seaweed
- Swedish: sloke — an edible seaweed
- Swedish: purpurhinna — an edible seaweed
- German: Waschraum — a washroom; lavatorium
- German: Brunnenhaus — a washroom; lavatorium
- German: Lavatorium — a washroom; lavatorium