lager
English Edit
Pronunciation Edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɑːɡə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɑɡɚ/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːɡə(ɹ)
- Homophone: laager; logger (with father-bother merger)
Etymology 1 Edit
From German Lagerbier (“beer made for storing”), from Lager (“store”). Cognate with native English lair.
Noun Edit
lager (plural lagers)
- A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.
Coordinate terms Edit
Derived terms Edit
Translations Edit
Verb Edit
lager (third-person singular simple present lagers, present participle lagering, simple past and past participle lagered)
- To store (lager beer) at a low temperature for maturing and clarification.
See also Edit
Etymology 2 Edit
Noun Edit
lager (plural lagers)
- Alternative spelling of laager
Verb Edit
lager (third-person singular simple present lagers, present participle lagering, simple past and past participle lagered)
- Alternative spelling of laager
Anagrams Edit
Danish Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
From German Lager, cognate with Danish lejr.
Noun Edit
lager n (singular definite lageret, plural indefinite lagre)
Inflection Edit
Etymology 2 Edit
Abbreviation of lagerøl.
Noun Edit
lager c (singular definite lageren, plural indefinite lagere)
- (rare) lager (type of beer)
Inflection Edit
Synonyms Edit
Dutch Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
From German Lager; doublet of leger
Noun Edit
lager m or n (plural lagers, diminutive lagertje n)
- bearing (a metal block or other construction holding a rotating axis in position)
Derived terms Edit
Etymology 2 Edit
From German Lager, shortening of Lagerbier (“lager beer”), a compound of Lager (“camp”) + Bier (“beer”).
Noun Edit
lager n (plural lagers, diminutive lagertje n)
- (archaic) beer of low fermentation
Etymology 3 Edit
Likely borrowed from German Lager (“camp, encampment”), with semantic influence from Afrikaans laer.
Noun Edit
lager n (plural lagers)
- (historical) laager (wagon fort used by Boers, especially Voortrekkers)
Hypernyms Edit
Etymology 4 Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective Edit
lager
Descendants Edit
- Berbice Creole Dutch: lagri
German Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Verb Edit
lager
- first-person singular present of lagern (colloquial)
- singular imperative of lagern (colloquial)
Icelandic Edit
Etymology Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
lager m (genitive singular lagers, nominative plural lagerar)
Declension Edit
Antonyms Edit
- (stock): vörubirgðir
- (store): vörugeymsla
Norwegian Bokmål Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
Noun Edit
lager n (definite singular lageret, indefinite plural lager or lagre, definite plural lagra or lagrene)
Derived terms Edit
Etymology 2 Edit
Verb Edit
lager
Etymology 3 Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
lager m
- indefinite plural of lag
References Edit
- “lager” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Anagrams Edit
Norwegian Nynorsk Edit
Etymology Edit
Noun Edit
lager n (definite singular lageret, indefinite plural lager, definite plural lagera)
Derived terms Edit
References Edit
- “lager” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
German Lager, from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, from Proto-West Germanic *legr. Doublet of läger (“place to sleep”).
Noun Edit
lager n (countable)
- a store, a warehouse (a place where things are stored, for example before they are moved out to the sales area in a shop)
- a supply, stock (the things in a store)
- Synonym: förråd n
- a layer (a single thickness of some material covering a surface)
- a stratum (one of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another)
- Synonym: skikt n
- (mechanical engineering) a bearing (a mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction, especially between rotating parts)
Declension Edit
Declension of lager | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | lager | lagret | lager | lagren |
Genitive | lagers | lagrets | lagers | lagrens |
Derived terms Edit
Etymology 2 Edit
From Old Swedish laver, laur, laghur, lagher, laghir, from Middle Dutch lauwer, ultimately from Latin laurus.
Noun Edit
lager c (countable or uncountable)
- laurel
- (figurative, usually in the plural) a crown of laurel, an academic merit
- där de härliga lagrarna gro
- where the wonderful laurels grow (i.e. at the university)
- vila inte på lagrarna
- don't rest on your laurels (don't let old victories make you lazy)
Declension Edit
Declension of lager | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | lager | lagern | lagrar | lagrarna |
Genitive | lagers | lagerns | lagrars | lagrarnas |
Derived terms Edit
Etymology 3 Edit
Clipping of lageröl, from lager (“store”) + öl (“beer”).
Noun Edit
lager c (countable or uncountable)
Declension Edit
Declension of lager | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | lager | lagern | lager | lagerna |
Genitive | lagers | lagerns | lagers | lagernas |
Further reading Edit
- lager in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
- lager in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
Anagrams Edit
Uzbek Edit
Noun Edit
lager (plural lagerlar)