Definitions for Lares

Lares Lar·es

Spelling: [lair-eez, ley-reez]
IPA: /ˈlɛər iz, ˈleɪ riz/

Lares is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in Lares (aelrs).

Definitions for Lares

noun

  1. (initial capital letter) Roman Religion. any of the Lares.
  2. Zoology. white-handed gibbon.

plural noun

  1. the spirits who, if propitiated, watched over the house or community to which they belonged.

Origin of Lares

First recorded in 1590-1600, Lares is from the Latin word Larēs

Examples for Lares

We will set up our Lares and Penates in its very centerahem!

The two snakes were symbolic of the Lares Compitales, and are common at Pompeii.

But some think that Lares are such as trouble private houses.

Thank the Lares and Penates that Howard Fast wrote Spartacus for similar reasons.

When a sacrifice was offered to the Lares, the victim was a pig.

Deaf is the heart to which the Lares call from the desolate floors in vain.

But here in this room you are my Lares and Penates—you are my Love.

It has a fourth century Shrine of the Lares, with niches for statues.

It is thus interpreted by the same author:—Nos, Lares, juvate.

Beyond the impluvium is the place of a small altar for the worship of the Lares.

Word Value for Lares
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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