See also: Lager, läger, låger, Läger, and lâğər

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Etymology 1

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A pint of lager.

From German Lagerbier (beer made for storing), from Lager (store). Cognate with native English lair.

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lager (plural lagers)

  1. A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.
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  • Irish: lágar
  • Scottish Gaelic: làgar
  • Welsh: lager
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lager (third-person singular simple present lagers, present participle lagering, simple past and past participle lagered)

  1. To store (lager beer) at a low temperature for maturing and clarification.

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lager (plural lagers)

  1. Alternative spelling of laager

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lager (third-person singular simple present lagers, present participle lagering, simple past and past participle lagered)

  1. Alternative spelling of laager

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Danish

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From German Lager, cognate with Danish lejr.

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lager n (singular definite lageret, plural indefinite lagre)

  1. store, warehouse
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Abbreviation of lagerøl.

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lager c (singular definite lageren, plural indefinite lagere)

  1. (rare) lager (type of beer)
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Dutch

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From German Lager; doublet of leger.

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lager m or n (plural lagers, diminutive lagertje n)

  1. bearing (a metal block or other construction holding a rotating axis in position)
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From German Lager, shortening of Lagerbier (lager beer), a compound of Lager (storehouse) + Bier (beer).

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lager n (plural lagers, diminutive lagertje n)

  1. (archaic) beer of low fermentation

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Likely borrowed from German Lager (storehourse), with semantic influence from Afrikaans laer.

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lager n (plural lagers)

  1. (historical) laager (wagon fort used by Boers, especially Voortrekkers)
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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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lager

  1. comparative degree of laag
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  • Berbice Creole Dutch: lagri

German

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lager

  1. first-person singular present of lagern (colloquial)
  2. singular imperative of lagern (colloquial)

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Borrowed from German Lager.

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lager m (genitive singular lagers, nominative plural lagerar)

  1. stock, inventory
  2. store, stock room

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From German Lager.

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lager n (definite singular lageret, indefinite plural lager or lagre, definite plural lagra or lagrene)

  1. a warehouse
  2. a bearing (mechanical part)
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lager

  1. present tense of lage

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  • IPA(key): /lɑːɡər/
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  • Rhymes: -ər
  • Hyphenation: lag‧er

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lager m

  1. indefinite plural of lag

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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From German Lager.

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lager n (definite singular lageret, indefinite plural lager, definite plural lagera)

  1. a warehouse
  2. a bearing (mechanical part)

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Polish

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lager

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Borrowed from German Lagerbier.

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lager m animal or m inan

  1. lager (type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast)
    Synonym: leżak
    Hypernym: piwo
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Borrowed from German Lager. Doublet of lagier and łagier.

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lager m inan (related adjective lagrowy)

  1. (historical) Alternative form of lagier
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Further reading

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  • lager in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • lager in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • lager in PWN's encyclopedia

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlɑːɡɛr/
  • Audio; ett lager:(file)

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German Lager, from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, from Proto-West Germanic *legr. Doublet of läger (place to sleep).

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lager n (countable)

  1. a store, a warehouse (a place where things are stored, for example before they are moved out to the sales area in a shop)
  2. a supply, stock (the things in a store)
    Synonym: förråd n
  3. a layer (a single thickness of some material covering a surface)
  4. a stratum (one of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another)
    Synonym: skikt n
  5. (mechanical engineering) a bearing (a mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction, especially between rotating parts)
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From Old Swedish laver, laur, laghur, lagher, laghir, from Middle Dutch lauwer, ultimately from Latin laurus.

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lager c (countable or uncountable)

  1. laurel
  2. (figuratively, 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)
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Clipping of lageröl, from lager (store) +‎ öl (beer).

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lager c (countable or uncountable)

  1. lager (a type of beer)
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Declension of lager
nominative genitive
singular indefinite lager lagers
definite lagern lagerns
plural indefinite lager lagers
definite lagerna lagernas

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lager (plural lagerlar)

  1. camp
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