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lager
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l????/
- (US) IPA(key): /?l????/
- Rhymes: -????(r)
- Homophone: logger (with father-bother merger)
Etymology 1
From German Lagerbier (“beer made for storing”), from Lager (“store”).
Noun
lager (plural lagers)
- A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
lager (third-person singular simple present lagers, present participle lagering, simple past and past participle lagered)
- To store (lager beer) at a low temperature for maturing and clarification.
See also
- ale
Etymology 2
Noun
lager (plural lagers)
- Alternative spelling of laager
Verb
lager (third-person singular simple present lagers, present participle lagering, simple past and past participle lagered)
- Alternative spelling of laager
Anagrams
- Agler, Alger, Elgar, Large, Ragle, ergal, glare, large, regal
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la????r/, [?læ?j?], [?læ??]
- Rhymes: -a???r
Etymology 1
From German Lager, from Proto-Germanic *legr?, cognate with Danish lejr,
Noun
lager n (singular definite lageret, plural indefinite lagre)
- store, warehouse
Inflection
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of lagerøl.
Noun
lager c (singular definite lageren, plural indefinite lagere)
- (rare) lager (type of beer)
Inflection
Synonyms
- lagerøl
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?.??r/
- Hyphenation: la?ger
- Rhymes: -a???r
Etymology 1
From German Lager; doublet of leger
Noun
lager m or n (plural lagers, diminutive lagertje n)
- bearing (a metal block or other construction holding a rotating axis in position)
Derived terms
- kegellager
- kogellager
Etymology 2
From German Lager, shortening of Lagerbier (“lager beer”), a compound of Lager (“camp”) + Bier (“beer”).
Noun
lager n (plural lagers, diminutive lagertje n)
- (archaic) beer of low fermentation
Etymology 3
Likely borrowed from German Lager (“camp, encampment”), with semantic influence from Afrikaans laer.
Noun
lager n (plural lagers)
- (historical) laager (wagon fort used by Boers, especially Voortrekkers)
Hypernyms
- wagenburg
- wagenfort
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the main entry.
Adjective
lager
- Comparative form of laag
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?la?.??]
Verb
lager
- first-person singular present of lagern (colloquial)
- singular imperative of lagern (colloquial)
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la???r/
Noun
lager m (genitive singular lagers, nominative plural lagerar)
- stock, inventory
- store, stock room
Declension
Antonyms
- (stock): vörubirgðir
- (store): vörugeymsla
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From German Lager
Noun
lager n (definite singular lageret, indefinite plural lager or lagre, definite plural lagra or lagrene)
- a warehouse
- a bearing (mechanical part)
Derived terms
- lagerføre
- lagerrom
- varelager
Etymology 2
Verb
lager
- present tense of lage
References
- “lager” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From German Lager
Noun
lager n (definite singular lageret, indefinite plural lager, definite plural lagera)
- a warehouse
- a bearing (mechanical part)
Derived terms
- lagerføre
- lagerrom
- varelager
References
- “lager” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l????r/
Etymology 1
German Lager, from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, from Proto-Germanic *legr?. Doublet of läger (“place to sleep”).
Noun
lager n (countable)
- a store, a warehouse (a place where things are stored, for example before they are moved out to the sales area in a shop)
- a supply, stock (the things in a store)
- Synonym: förråd n
- a layer (a single thickness of some material covering a surface)
- a stratum (one of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another)
- Synonym: skikt n
- (mechanical engineering) a bearing (a mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction, especially between rotating parts)
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old Swedish laver, laur, laghur, lagher, laghir, from Middle Dutch lauwer, ultimately from Latin laurus.
Noun
lager c (countable or uncountable)
- laurel
- (figuratively, usually in the plural) a crown of laurel, an academic merit
Declension
Derived terms
- lagerbär
- lagerkrans
Etymology 3
Clipping of lageröl, from lager (“store”) +? öl (“beer”).
Noun
lager c (countable or uncountable)
- lager (a type of beer)
Declension
Anagrams
- Alger, alger, regla
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- what lager means
- what lager beer means
- what lagers are low in gluten
- what lagers are gluten free
- what lagers are not pilsners
- what lager tastes like yuengling
- what lager does aldi sell
- what lager is vegan
wifebeater
English
Alternative forms
- wife beater
- wife-beater
Etymology
From wife +? beater. The lager acquired this nickname because, being relatively strong, it was thought to lead to drunken disputes.
Pronunciation
Noun
wifebeater (countable and uncountable, plural wifebeaters)
- One who (usually as a repeated practice) beats his wife, or a husband prone to violence.
- (US, slang) A kind of sleeveless shirt, often but not exclusively worn as an undershirt.
- (uncountable, Britain, slang) Stella Artois, a brand of lager beer.
Synonyms
- (one who beats one’s wife): abusive husband
- (a kind of sleeveless shirt): A-shirt, athletic shirt, beater, muscle shirt, singlet (chiefly Australia, UK), tank top, vest
Translations
See also
- wife-beating question
wifebeater From the web:
- wife beater means
- what is wifebeater shirt
- what does wife beater mean
- what us a wife beater
- wife beater or a durag
- what is s wife beater
- why do they call a wife beater a wife beater
- why is a wife beater called a wife beater
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