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lauter

UK/laʊtə(ɹ)/US/laʊtɚ/

lauter adjective: clear.

Adjective

lauter (not comparable)

  1. (attributive) Clear.
    • The practice in the Munich brewery made it plain that the object of the drawing off of the thick mash is to completely separate the thick mash from the lauter mash.1905, Pure Products, volume 1, page 176
    • Since the husks and coarse grits are essential for distancing grist particles from one another in the lauter mash, their diminished presence in wheat beer worts will impede the lautering process.1992, Eric Warner, German Wheat Beer, →ISBN

Verb

lauter (third-person singular simple present lauters, present participle lautering, simple past and past participle lautered)

  1. (transitive) To subject to lautering.

Proper noun capitalized: Lauter

Lauter (plural Lauters)

  1. A surname from German.

Forms of lauter

Verb
third-person singular presentlauters
present participlelautering
past participlelautered
pastlautered
Proper noun
pluralLauters

Origin of lauter

From German lauter (“pure, clear”, adjective). Began to become common in English in the 1880s.

Borrowed from German Lauter.

Questions about lauter

What does lauter mean?
Lauter means clear.
What part of speech is lauter?
Lauter can be an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce lauter?
Lauter is pronounced /laʊtɚ/ (US).

Words near lauter in the dictionary

  1. lausenite
  2. lautarite
  3. Lautaro
  4. lautenclavicymbal
  5. lautenthalite
  6. lauter
  7. Lauterbach
  8. Lauterbaches
  9. Lauterbrunnen
  10. lautered
  11. lautering

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lauter (page history and authors); Lauter (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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