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Definition: Laager |
LaagerNoun1. (South African) a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: LaagerSynonym: lager (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Defense | Safeguard; (safety); balistraria; bunker, screen; (shelter); camouflage; (concealment); fortification; munition, muniment; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment; kila; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field-work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation; paling; (inclosure); palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp; escarp, counter-scarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Laager |
| Specialty definitions using "laager": 37339. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Laager" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Turkish (laager). |
| "Laager" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Laager" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "laager": Gruetli Laager. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "laager": Gruetli-Laager. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ken laager | 3 |
laager | 2 |
gruetli laager | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "laager"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | szekértábor (lager), hadifogolytábor (cage, lager, prison camp). (various references) | |
Italian | campo (block, branch, break, camp, category, course, domain, field, magnetic domain, playing field, plot, range, reach, scope, span, tether), accampamento (bivouac, camp, encampment). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aagerlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lá (over there, there, wool, yonder). (various references) | |
Spanish | punto de laager. (various references) | |
Turkish | laager kurmak, laager, arabalarla çevrili kamp yeri, arabalarla çevirmek. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "laager": laagered, laagering, laagers. (additional references) | |
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"Laager" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aliaga, alnager, kleiger, laagar, Laeger, lagar, lagere, lauge, leage, leiger, leofgar, Llanaber. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aglare, alegar. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-l-r" | |
-1 letter: algae, areal, argal, argle, galea, glare, graal, lager, large, regal. | |
-2 letters: agar, ager, alae, alar, alga, area, earl, egal, gala, gale, gear, lear, raga, rage, rale, real. | |
-3 letters: aal, aga, age, ala, ale, are, ear, era, erg, gae, gal, gar, gel, lag, lar, lea, leg, rag, reg. | |
-4 letters: aa, ae, ag, al, ar, el, er, la, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-l-r" | |
+1 letter: alegars, algebra, laagers, realgar, regalia. | |
+2 letters: agrestal, algebras, argental, arguable, galleria, gasalier, geranial, glabrate, gradable, grazable, laagered, langrage, layerage, pellagra, realgars, salvager. | |
+3 letters: agreeable, agreeably, algebraic, antiglare, archangel, armigeral, averagely, barrelage, cablegram, cartilage, cataloger, cellarage, engarland, flagellar, flagrance, gallerias, garlanded, gasaliers, gastrulae, geranials, glabellar, glassware, grantable, granulate, graspable, gratulate, grazeable, laagering, langrages, laryngeal, layerages, neuralgia, palsgrave, paralegal, pellagras, phalanger, rangeland, salvagers, tailgater. | |
+4 letters: acromegaly, algebraist, appareling, archangels, aspergilla, barrelages, cablegrams, carmagnole, cartilages, catalogers, cataloguer, cellarages, chargeable, deflagrate, degradable, engarlands, extralegal, flagrances, fragmental, galvanizer, gastrulate, glassmaker, glasspaper, glasswares, granulated, granulates, gratulated, gratulates, greaseball, inarguable, lacerating, langlaufer, laryngeals, lateraling, laureating, managerial, martingale, neuralgias, palavering, palsgraves, paralegals, paraplegia, paraplegic, phalangers, pharyngeal, plagiaries, plagiarise, plagiarize, propagable, quadrangle, rangelands, reavailing, rigamarole, tailgaters, targetable, tetragonal, unarguable, upgradable. | |
+5 letters: acromegalic, agglomerate, aggregately, algebraists, allegorical, allografted, altercating, alternating, apparelling, archaeology, archangelic, archegonial, archipelago, ballyragged, berascaling, calendaring, carmagnoles, cataloguers, categorical, cavaliering, deflagrated, deflagrates, egalitarian, elaborating, engarlanded, enlargeable, equiangular, farthingale, flabbergast, flagrancies, gallantries, gallbladder, galvanizers, gastrulated, gastrulates, glassmakers, glasspapers, gradualness, greaseballs, laggardness, langlaufers, lateralling, lawbreaking, magisterial, maltreating, marginalize, martingales, organizable, paleography, panegyrical, paralleling, paraplegias, paraplegics, plagiarised, plagiarises, plagiarized, plagiarizer, plagiarizes, plantigrade, quadrangles, racewalking, reanalyzing, reassailing, rebalancing, rectangular, retaliating, revaluating, rigamaroles, strangulate, strategical, sugarloaves, talebearing, triangulate, ungraspable, upgradeable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 61 67 65 72 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- .- --. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01100001 01100111 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a a g e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0061 0067 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)466767737184 |
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