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lager

UK/ˈlɑːɡə//ˈlɑɡɚ/

lager noun: a type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast. Also the alternative spelling of laager.

lager: a type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast
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Noun

lager (plural lagers)

  1. A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.
    • The 40-year-old [Mike Skinner] is happy to put his body on the line in other ways, swapping a mug of tea for a fan's double pint of lager and messily necking it in one.2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Verb

lager (third-person singular simple present lagers, present participle lagering, simple past and past participle lagered)

  1. To store (lager beer) at a low temperature for maturing and clarification.

Also used as

lager is also the alternative spelling of laager.

lager meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

lager in Hindi

लैगर

lager in Tamil

லாகர், லேகர்

lager in Marathi

लॅगर

lager in Urdu

لیگر, لیگر کرنا
More languagesFewer languages
lager in Bengali
ল্যাগার
lager in Malayalam
ലാഗർ, ലഗർ, ലഗെർ
lager in Kannada
ಲಗರ್
lager in Punjabi
ਲੈਗਰ, ਲੈਗਰ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
lager in Gujarati
લેગર

Examples of lager in a sentence

  • I love to go down the pub and knock down pints of lager.
  • A pint of lager, please. - Sorry, mate, you missed last orders.
  • In a role reversal, he is drinking Smirnoff Ice while she steadily demolishes a six-pack of lager!

All 27 example sentences with lager

Forms of lager

Noun
plurallagers
Verb
third-person singular presentlagers
present participlelagering
past participlelagered
pastlagered

Plural of lager: lagers

Origin of lager

From German Lagerbier (“beer made for storing”), from Lager (“store”). Cognate with native English lair.

Words formed from lager

Phrases with lager

Words that rhyme with lager

Questions about lager

What does lager mean?
Lager means a type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.
What is lager in Hindi?
Lager in Hindi is लैगर. See Lager meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is lager?
Lager can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce lager?
Lager is pronounced /ˈlɑːɡə/ (UK).
What is the plural of lager?
The plural of lager is lagers.

Words near lager in the dictionary

  1. lagenids
  2. lageniform
  3. lagenlook
  4. lagenocanaliculate
  5. lagenæ
  6. lager
  7. lager lout
  8. lager louts
  9. lager top
  10. lager tops
  11. lager-beer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lager (page history and authors); lager (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lager (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lager (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lager (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lager (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lager (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lager (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lager (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lager (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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