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Lav vs Lar - What's the difference?

lav | lar |

As nouns the difference between lav and lar

is that lav is lavatory while lar is a household or ancestral god in ancient Rome.

As an abbreviation LAr is

abbreviation of lang=en|liquid argon a liquid composed of the liquid phase of molecular (atomic) argon (Ar.

lav

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (British, slang) Lavatory.
    • Please miss, Johnny wants to go to the lav.

    Synonyms

    * (lavatory ): ** (standard ): lavatory, toilet ** (colloquial/slang ): little boy's room, little girl's room, loo, smallest room ** (coarse/taboo slang ): bog, crapper, shithouse, shitter

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    lar

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A household or ancestral god in ancient Rome
  • *
  • The lar gibbon.

    • Usage notes

    (Lares) The first sense is most often used in English as the capitalized plurale tantum'' Lares. It is more often pluralized lares''' as in Latin than ' lars .

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