Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The sixth tone of the diatonic scale in solfeggio.
- interjection Used to express emphasis or indicate surprise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An expression of mild admiration, wonder, or surprise, and formerly of asseveration: as, O la! that is strange.
- noun In solmization, the syllable used for the sixth tone of the scale—that is, the submediant.
- noun The feminine form of the definite article in French, occurring in some names and phrases used in English.
- noun In chem., the symbol for lanthanum.
- noun A contraction of Louisiana.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A syllable applied to the sixth tone of the scale in music in solmization.
- noun The tone A; -- so called among the French and Italians.
- interjection obsolete Look; see; behold; -- sometimes followed by
you . - interjection Low An exclamation of surprise; -- commonly followed by
me
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Prefixed to the name of a
woman , withironic effect (as though an operaprima donna ). - noun music A syllable used in
solfège to represent the sixth note of amajor scale . - interjection obsolete Used to introduce a statement with emphatic or intensive effect.
- interjection archaic Expressing surprise, anger etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
- noun a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth
- noun the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Jeudi, la presse italienne s'est longuement attardée sur «la Carla».
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Jeudi, la presse italienne s'est longuement attardée sur «la Carla».
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He's sweet la .. i know .. but he need not spend this kinda $$ on me de lo ... i can seriously protect myself. but i guess he didnt think so la~ haha!
kimmiology Diary Entry kimmiology 2008
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Are we that fermented and pungent that we have to perfume ourselves with the more refined *ooh la la* Japanese?
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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There is a wine list that has the *ooh la la* wines, but they also have a list of wines that are $10 a bottle.
Red and Roasted Peppers to the Rescue - San Gennaro Cafe, Brentwood 2005
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Are we that fermented and pungent that we have to perfume ourselves with the more refined *ooh la la* Japanese?
Crouching Liger, Hidden Korean - Miyako Japanese Restaurant 2005
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J'ai toujours pensé que la mémoire était *la* grande affaire de la langue... et de la vie, en fait.
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It begins, Deck the halls with boughs of holly;/Fa la la la la, la la la la .
"Deck the Halls" 2002
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Vol. 5: Oeuvres anonymes du XVIIIe siècle (III): du Père Dirrag et de Mademoiselle Eradice Le Triomphe des religieuses ou les nonnes babillardes Lettres galantes et philosophiques de deux nonnes La Messaline française ou les nuits de la duchesse de Pol et aventures mystérieuses de la princesse d'H et de la
Sex for Thought Darnton, Robert 1994
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J'ai entendu un des hommes de loi les plus éclairés, et dont à tout autre égard les opinions sont libérales, soutenir que "ce serait attenter à _la propriété_ que de déclarer libres même les enfans à naître des femmes esclaves, parce que, disait-il, les maîtres qui out acheté ou hérité des esclaves, les possèdent dans la confiance que leur _issue_ sera leur propriété utile et disponible."
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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Jumbies are not good. They're not good creatures, for the most part. Or at least this is how it was explained to me or told to me, the stories that were told to me. Jumbies are creatures who will eat you, given half the chance to eat you and so growing up, you had to know all the different ways that you could protect yourself from a jumbie so that you wouldn't get dragged off. Of course, we know what that's about – as adults, you tell these stories to children so that they stay where they're supposed to stay, you know, that's really the whole purpose behind them. But of course, as a little kid, you're thinking, your eyes are giant, you know, you're looking around, you're like, ready with all of your, you know, various accoutrements to make sure that, you know, no jumbie gets you tonight, you know? And I was fairly certain that there were people in my life who I really thought were jumbies. Ms. Evelyn, who lived next door to my grandmother. I was sure she was a soucouyant. I mean, and I still, you know, I'm fairly certain that she was, actually. So there's all of these different kinds of creatures, and so jumbies are sort of a catch-all name for a bunch of different creatures: there’s soucouyant, lagahoo, douen, La Diabless, there’s Papa Bois, there's Mama D’Leau, and those are just the ones that we talk about mostly in Trinidad and Tobago. Now throughout the Caribbean and South America, there are other types of jumbies, they may not be called jumbies, they might be called duppies. They might be called other things, but they're all part of the same type of story. And they are all fairly menacing, some to less degrees than others. Some are helpful. I actually recently found out that some of the ones that they talk about in Haiti are really quite benevolent. That's not my experience. As far as I know, they're just gonna eat you.
What Is A Jumbie? 2022
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Empire of Light reflects the chiaroscuro of cinema, where phantasms of light are projected through the darkness and people dream with their eyes wide open; maybe it also alludes to what French film-makers call la nuit américaine, the practice of using special lenses and filters to shoot night scenes in broad daylight.
Trick of the light: the enduring appeal of René Magritte’s big tease Peter Conrad 2024
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Empire of Light reflects the chiaroscuro of cinema, where phantasms of light are projected through the darkness and people dream with their eyes wide open; maybe it also alludes to what French film-makers call la nuit américaine, the practice of using special lenses and filters to shoot night scenes in broad daylight.
Trick of the light: the enduring appeal of René Magritte’s big tease Peter Conrad 2024
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Empire of Light reflects the chiaroscuro of cinema, where phantasms of light are projected through the darkness and people dream with their eyes wide open; maybe it also alludes to what French film-makers call la nuit américaine, the practice of using special lenses and filters to shoot night scenes in broad daylight.
Trick of the light: the enduring appeal of René Magritte’s big tease Peter Conrad 2024
oroboros commented on the word la
La. Chemical element symbol for Lanthanum.
December 16, 2007