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Lara

Syllables: La·ra/ˈlɑː.ɹə/

Lara proper noun: a suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

Proper noun

Lara

  1. A suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia
  2. A female given name from Russian or Ukrainian.
    • Long after the divorce, Moran maintained the habit of giving her name as Lara to the Starbucks baristas. She had once met another Lara at Logan airport, both of them waiting for their coffees, both stepping forward when summoned. The other Lara said her parents had gone through a period of thinking...2014, Yiyun Li, Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel, Random House, →ISBN
    • "If we live in a country where so many people could elect Donald Trump, then that's not a country I want to live in," 17-year-old Lara Godoff told the Associated Press.2017 January 6, “Is 'Trump-effect' to blame for US students fleeing to Canada?”, in BBC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2025
  3. A surname.

Origin of Lara

Anglicized from Russian Ла́ра (Lára), a Russian pet form of Larissa, known from the novel (1957) and film (1965) Dr Zhivago.

Words that rhyme with Lara

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Questions about Lara

What does Lara mean?
Lara means a suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
What part of speech is Lara?
Lara is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Lara?
Lara is pronounced /ˈlɑː.ɹə/ (UK).

Words near Lara in the dictionary

  1. Laquisha
  2. Laquita
  3. lar
  4. lar gibbon
  5. lar gibbons
  6. Lara
  7. Larabee
  8. Larabees
  9. Larache
  10. Laracuente
  11. Laracuentes

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