LA
See also: Appendix:Variations of "la"
Translingual
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɛl ˈeɪ/
- (US) IPA(key): [ˌɛɫ ˈlej]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪ
Noun
LA (plural LAs)
- (anatomy, medicine) Initialism of left atrium.
- (inorganic chemistry) Initialism of lead arsenate.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of local anesthetic.
- Initialism of lateral area.
- Initialism of local authority.
Proper noun
LA
- Initialism of Los Angeles, a city in the United States.
- 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Penguin, published 1976, →OCLC, part 1, page 86:
- LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets god-awful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
- 2005 May 1, Robert Lamoreaux, Michelle Lamoreaux, Nicole Demerse, Jef Biederman, Richard Clark, “Evil Promotion Much?”, in Totally Spies!: Undercover, season 3, episode 24, spoken by Clover (Andrea Baker), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:
- Speaking as an LA native, this is the longest earthquake I’ve ever felt!
- Abbreviation of Louisiana, a state of the United States.
- Abbreviation of Ladakh, a state of India.
- (humorous) Abbreviation of Lower Arkansas, also in reference to the state of Louisiana.
- Abbreviation of Lampung, a province of Indonesia.
- Initialism of Las Anod, a city in Somalia.
- Initialism of Linear A.
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