Definitions for Lark

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Spelling: [lahrk]

IPA: /lɑrk/

Lark is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in Lark (aklr).

Definitions for Lark

noun

1. any of numerous, chiefly Old World oscine birds, of the family Alaudidae, characterized by an unusually long, straight hind claw, especially the skylark, Alauda arvensis.
2. any of various similar birds of other families, as the meadowlark and titlark.
3. a merry, carefree adventure; frolic; escapade.
4. innocent or good-natured mischief; a prank.
5. something extremely easy to accomplish, succeed in, or to obtain:

verb (used without object)

1. to have fun; frolic; romp.
2. to behave mischievously; play pranks.
3. Fox Hunting. (of a rider) to take jumps unnecessarily:

Origin of Lark

before 900; Middle English larke, Old English lāwerce; cognate with German Lerche, Dutch leeuwerik, Old Norse lǣvirki

Examples for Lark

Rather a lark I might have thought it but for the false military title.

And now their voices seemed to them as clear as the notes of a lark.

Like so many young girls, she tried modeling as a lark, a way of escaping the humdrum and finding glamour.

The idea was conceived by a food scientist at Brigham Young University, who added dry ice to the cultured dairy on a lark.

Mercury on a lark in your opposite sign calls for expressions that run counter to the woulda-shoulda-coulda loop in your mind.

Moreover, what was so real for her was only too plainly a lark for him.

Though you go to bed with the nightingale, you rise with the lark.

But what started as a lark became a professional passion for Holland.

No one who works on a morning newspaper ever takes advantage of the lark's example.

Free Crimea, we ultimately discover, is the work of a drunken Brit on a lark.