Associations to the word «La»

Wiktionary

LA, symbol. The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Lao People's Democratic Republic.
LA, abbreviation. Louisiana, a state of the United States of America.
LA, abbreviation. Lampung, a province of Indonesia.
LA, noun. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.
LA, interjection. (obsolete) Used to introduce a statement with emphatic or intensive effect.
LA, interjection. (archaic) Expressing surprise, anger. etc.
LA, adjective. Prefixed to the name of a woman, with ironic effect (as though an opera prima donna).
LA, noun. (Scouse) lad, lid
LA, symbol. (element symbol) Symbol for lanthanum.
LA, abbreviation. Alternative form of LA
LA, abbreviation. Lane (in street addresses)
LÄ, noun. Sixth tone of the diatonic scale.
LA BELLE INDIFFERENCE, noun. (psychology) (dated) A condition in which the person is unconcerned with symptoms caused by a conversion disorder. A naive, inappropriate lack of emotion or concern for the perceptions by others of one's disability, usually seen in persons with conversion disorder.
LA BELLE INDIFFÉRENCE, noun. Alternative spelling of la belle indifference
LA CORUÑA, proper noun. A historic city on the coast of Galicia, Spain
LA DE DA, adjective. Alternative spelling of la-de-da
LA LAGUNA, proper noun. San Cristóbal de La Laguna
LA MARSEILLAISE, noun. The French national anthem, la Marseillaise, with at least seven verses plus the chorus.
LA NIÑA, noun. A sustained sea-surface temperature anomaly of magnitude greater than 0.5°C across the central tropical Pacific Ocean, associated with a negative anomaly and producing predictable variations in local and regional weather patterns.
LA NINA, proper noun. Nonstandard spelling of La Niña.
LA NINA, proper noun. Alternative spelling of La Niña
LA NIÑAS, noun. Plural of La Niña
LA PAZ, proper noun. The administrative capital of Bolivia.
LA PAZ, proper noun. The capital of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur.
LA PÉROUSE STRAIT, proper noun. A strait dividing the Russian island of Sakhalin in the north from the Japanese island of Hokkaido, and connecting the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east.
LA PLATA DOLPHIN, noun. Pontoporia blainvillei, a dolphin found in the coastal Atlantic waters of southeastern South America.
LA RIOJA, proper noun. An autonomous community in the north of Spain, with capital Logroño.
LA RIOJA, proper noun. A province in Argentina.
LA ROCHELLE, proper noun. A port city on the Bay of Biscay, in the department of Charente-Maritime, region of Poitou-Charentes, in France.
LA SPEZIA, proper noun. Province of Liguria, Italy.
LA SPEZIA, proper noun. Port and capital of La Spezia.
LA TOYA, proper noun. A female given name of African-American usage in the latter half of the twentieth century.
LA TREILLE, proper noun. A town in Saint Lucia
LA TREILLE, proper noun. A neighborhood in Marseille
LA VERGNE, proper noun. (chiefly US) A female given name.
LA VERGNE, proper noun. A city in Tennessee
LA VERNE, proper noun. A city in California.
LA VERNE, proper noun. (chiefly US) A female given name.

Dictionary definition

LA, noun. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth.
LA, noun. A state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War.
LA, noun. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.

Wise words

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain