chara
chara noun: a green alga of the genus Chara.
Noun (1)
chara (plural charas)
- A green alga of the genus Chara.
- Synonyms:
- muskgrass
Noun (2)
chara (plural charas)
- Shortened form of charabanc
- The workers didn't get paid for any holidays, so a day out in a 'chara' was all they got.2013, Alf Townsend, The Charabanc: The Early Days of Motorised Coach Travel
Proper noun capitalized: Chara
Chara (countable and uncountable, plural Charas)
- A surname from Spanish Chará.
- A surname from Slovak Chára or Czech Chára.
- A river in Yakutia, Russia; Russian Ча́ра (Čára)
- Synonyms:
- Chara River, River Chara
- Ellipsis of Chara language, a language found in Ethiopia (ISO 639-3: cra).
- Ellipsis of Chara people, an ethnic group found in Ethiopia.
- Synonyms:
- Charas
Synonyms of chara
Forms of chara
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | charas |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Charas |
Origin of chara
From translingual/New Latin Chara.
Words formed from chara
- charophyte
- Chara River
- River Chara
Questions about chara
- What does chara mean?
- Chara means a green alga of the genus Chara.
- What part of speech is chara?
- Chara can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of chara?
- The plural of chara is charas.
Words near chara in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chara (page history and authors); Chara (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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