All English words - page 1947

Meanings of Lares:

plural noun

(in ancient roman belief) household gods worshipped in conjunction with vesta and the penates.

Usage examples:

Each family home would also have a small altar and shrine. the romans had personal household gods o…

Meanings of Largamente:

adverb

As a musical direction: in a slow, broad style.

noun

A movement or passage in a musical composition which is to be played largamente. also: the musical direction indicating that a movement or passage is to be played largamente.

adjective

That is to be played largamente.

Meanings of Large:

adjective

Of considerable or relatively great size, extent, or capacity.

Usage examples:

Add a large clove of garlic

verb

Enjoy oneself in a lively way with drink or drugs and music.

Usage examples:

He's known in clubland for his capacity for larging it

adverb

Another term for free (sense 2 of the adverb).

Meanings of Large-intestine:

noun

The lower part of the bowels in which water is removed from digested food before it is passed out of the body as solid waste

Meanings of Large-scale:

adjective

Involving many people or things, or happening over a large area

Usage examples:

We must improve our response to large-scale natural disasters.

Meanings of Largehearted:

adjective

Sympathetic and generous.

Usage examples:

He was too large-hearted a man for that

Meanings of Largeheartedness:

noun

Magnanimity, generosity.

Meanings of Largely:

adverb

To a great extent; on the whole; mostly.

Usage examples:

He was soon arrested, largely through the efforts of tom poole

Meanings of Largen:

verb

To grow large or larger.

Meanings of Larger:

adjective

Of considerable or relatively great size, extent, or capacity.

Usage examples:

Add a large clove of garlic

verb

Enjoy oneself in a lively way with drink or drugs and music.

Usage examples:

He's known in clubland for his capacity for larging it

Meanings of Larger-than-life:

phrase

(of a person) attracting special attention because of unusual and flamboyant appearance or behaviour.

Usage examples:

He was a larger-than-life character on and off the pitch

idiom

More obvious than usual

Usage examples:

His superhuman strength gives the story a larger-than-life quality, like a fable.

Meanings of Larges:

verb

Enjoy oneself in a lively way with drink or drugs and music.

Usage examples:

He's known in clubland for his capacity for larging it

adjective

Of considerable or relatively great size, extent, or capacity.

Usage examples:

Add a large clove of garlic

Meanings of Largest:

adjective

Of considerable or relatively great size, extent, or capacity.

Usage examples:

Add a large clove of garlic

verb

Enjoy oneself in a lively way with drink or drugs and music.

Usage examples:

He's known in clubland for his capacity for larging it

Meanings of Larget:

noun

A piece of bar iron that has been cut to a length to form a blank to be subsequently heated and rolled into a sheet of iron; a sheet bar.

Meanings of Larghetto:

adverb

(especially as a direction) in a fairly slow tempo.

Usage examples:

The movement has no separate tempo marking, but is normally played larghetto

adjective

Played fairly slowly.

Usage examples:

It is tempting to concentrate on the larghetto start to the finale

noun

A passage or movement marked to be performed in a fairly slow tempo.

Meanings of Larghettos:

noun

A passage or movement marked to be performed in a fairly slow tempo.

adverb

(especially as a direction) in a fairly slow tempo.

Usage examples:

The movement has no separate tempo marking, but is normally played larghetto

adjective

Played fairly slowly.

Usage examples:

It is tempting to concentrate on the larghetto start to the finale

Meanings of Largish:

adjective

Fairly large.

Usage examples:

A largish dog

Meanings of Lariat:

noun

A rope used as a lasso or for tethering.

Usage examples:

Their stocky indian driver, pigtailed and black-hatted, followed them astride a mule and quirted th…

Meanings of Lariats:

noun

A rope used as a lasso or for tethering.

Usage examples:

Their stocky indian driver, pigtailed and black-hatted, followed them astride a mule and quirted th…

Meanings of Lark about:

phrasal verb

To behave in a silly way because you think it is funny

Usage examples:

I was woken up by a couple of drunks larking around in the street., we were just larking about - we…

Meanings of Lark around:

phrasal verb

To behave in a silly way because you think it is funny

Usage examples:

I was woken up by a couple of drunks larking around in the street., we were just larking about - we…

Meanings of Larked:

verb

Enjoy oneself by behaving in a playful and mischievous way.

Usage examples:

He's always joking and larking about in the office

noun

A small ground-dwelling songbird with elongated hind claws and a song that is delivered on the wing, typically crested and with brown streaky plumage.

Usage examples:

In addition to communicating through song, larks will raise the crest of feathers in their head dur…

phrasal verb

To behave in a silly way because you think it is funny

Usage examples:

I was woken up by a couple of drunks larking around in the street., we were just larking about - we…

Meanings of Larking:

verb

Enjoy oneself by behaving in a playful and mischievous way.

Usage examples:

He's always joking and larking about in the office

noun

A small ground-dwelling songbird with elongated hind claws and a song that is delivered on the wing, typically crested and with brown streaky plumage.

Usage examples:

In addition to communicating through song, larks will raise the crest of feathers in their head dur…

phrasal verb

To behave in a silly way because you think it is funny

Usage examples:

I was woken up by a couple of drunks larking around in the street., we were just larking about - we…

Meanings of Larks:

noun

A small ground-dwelling songbird with elongated hind claws and a song that is delivered on the wing, typically crested and with brown streaky plumage.

Usage examples:

In addition to communicating through song, larks will raise the crest of feathers in their head dur…

verb

Enjoy oneself by behaving in a playful and mischievous way.

Usage examples:

He's always joking and larking about in the office

Meanings of Larkspur:

noun

An annual mediterranean plant of the buttercup family, which bears spikes of spurred flowers. it is closely related to the delphiniums, with which it has been bred to produce a number of cultivated hybrids.

Usage examples:

Will the poppy seeds come up planted where the larkspur grows?