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atar

atar is the alternative spelling of attar.

Meaning of attar

Noun

attar (countable and uncountable, plural attars)

  1. An essential oil extracted from flowers.
    • Now, when orange-flowers are distilled with water, we procure the otto of the blossom, which is known commercially as oil of neroli.1857, G[eorge] W[illiam] Septimus Piesse, “Section III”, in The Art of Perfumery, and Method of Obtaining the Odors of Plants, […], Philadelphia, Pa.: Lindsay and Blackiston, →OCLC, page 78
  2. A perfume made from this oil.

See all 3 meanings of attar

Noun capitalized: ATAR

ATAR (plural ATARs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Australian Tertiary Admission Rank

Proper noun capitalized: Atar

Atar

  1. The capital city of the Adrar Region, Mauritania.

Forms of atar

pluralatars
pluralATARs

Questions about atar

What does atar mean?
Atar means the capital city of the Adrar Region, Mauritania.
What is atar the alternative spelling of?
Atar is the alternative spelling of attar.
What part of speech is atar?
Atar can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of atar?
The plural of atar is atars.

Words near atar in the dictionary

  1. ataphrids
  2. ATAPI
  3. ataprost
  4. ataps
  5. ataque de nervios
  6. atar
  7. ataractic
  8. ataractics
  9. ataraxia
  10. ataraxias
  11. ataraxic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: atar (page history and authors); ATAR (page history and authors); Atar (page history and authors); attar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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