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lars

lars is the alternative form of Lares.

lars is the alternative form of lar.

Meaning of Lares

Noun

Lares pl (normally plural, singular Lar)

  1. (Roman, plural, plural-normally) The household deities watching over one's family and tutelary deities watching over some public places.
  2. (historical, plural, plural-normally) The idols representing these deities.

Meaning of lar

Noun (1)

lar (plural lars or lares)

  1. A lar gibbon (Hylobates lar).

Noun (2)

lar

  1. (historical) An Etruscan title, properly peculiar to the eldest son, but often mistaken for an integral part of the name.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Lars

Lars

  1. A male given name from Latin occasionally given to Anglophones.
    • Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who stirred worldwide controversy in 2007 with drawings depicting the prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog, was killed in a car crash near the southern town of Markaryd on Sunday, police said.2021 October 4, Reuters, “Lars Vilks, Swedish cartoonist who depicted Mohammed, killed in car crash”, in CNN, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2022

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Lars

Lars

  1. (alternative, plural, plural-only) Alternative form of Lares, the classical Roman household deities.
    • Dwarfish deities they had none. We are indeed told of the Lars, particularly the rural Lars, as answering to the Gothic Dwarfs; but no proofs are offered except the diminutive size of their statues.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 234

Origin of lars

Formed within English as a plural form of lar, q.v.

Borrowed from North Germanic, from Latin Laurentius.

Words that rhyme with lars

Questions about lars

What does lars mean?
Lars means a male given name from Latin occasionally given to Anglophones.
What is lars the alternative form of?
Lars is the alternative form of Lares.
What part of speech is lars?
Lars is a proper noun.

Words near lars in the dictionary

  1. Larry Stylinson
  2. larrykin
  3. larrykins
  4. larryman
  5. larrymen
  6. lars
  7. Larsa
  8. Larsadie
  9. Larsdotter
  10. Larsen
  11. Larsen effect

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lars (page history and authors); Lars (page history and authors); Lares (page history and authors); lar (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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