LA
Meanings
noun
- Initialism of left atrium.
- Initialism of lead arsenate.
- Initialism of local anesthetic.
- Initialism of lateral area.
- Initialism of local authority.
name
- Initialism of Los Angeles: a city in California, United States.
- Abbreviation of Louisiana: a state of the United States.
- Abbreviation of Ladakh: a union territory of India.
- Abbreviation of Lower Arkansas, also in reference to the state of Louisiana.
- Abbreviation of Lampung: a province of Indonesia.
- Initialism of Las Anod: a city in Somalia.
- Initialism of Linear A.
noun
- A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.
- Sometimes syllable for both the third and the sixth.
intj
- Represents the sound of music or singing.
intj
- Used to introduce a statement with emphatic or intensive effect.
- Expressing surprise, anger. etc.
adj
- Prefixed to the name of a woman, with ironic effect (as though an opera prima donna).
noun
- lad, kid
particle
- Placed at the end of a sentence in imperatives making it sound more like a request than an order.
- Used to tone down comments.
particle
- Alternative form of lah.
noun
- Abbreviation of lane (in street addresses).
- Alternative form of LA.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
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.
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