lager

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːɡə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑɡɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːɡə(ɹ)
• Homophones: laager; logger (father-bother merger)

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

lager (plural lagers)

1. A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.

• → Irish: lágar
• → Scottish Gaelic: làgar
• → Welsh: lager

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.

• ale

lager (plural lagers)

1. Alternative spelling of laager

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

1. Alternative spelling of laager

• Agler, Alger, Elgar, Large, Ragle, ergal, glare, large, regal

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːˀɣər/, [ˈlæˀjɐ], [ˈlæˀɐ]
• Rhymes: -aːˀər

From German Lager, cognate with Danish lejr.

lager n (singular definite lageret, plural indefinite lagre)

1. store, warehouse

Abbreviation of lagerøl.

lager c (singular definite lageren, plural indefinite lagere)

1. (rare) lager (type of beer)

• lagerøl

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.ɣər/

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• Hyphenation: la‧ger
• Rhymes: -aːɣər

From German Lager; doublet of leger.

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

1. bearing (a metal block or other construction holding a rotating axis in position)

• kegellager
• kogellager

From German Lager, shortening of Lagerbier (“lager beer”), a compound of Lager (“storehouse”) + Bier (“beer”).

lager n (plural lagers, diminutive lagertje n)

1. (archaic) beer of low fermentation

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

lager n (plural lagers)

1. (historical) laager (wagon fort used by Boers, especially Voortrekkers)

• wagenburg
• wagenfort

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lager

1. comparative degree of laag

• Berbice Creole Dutch: lagri

• IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.ɡɐ]

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lager

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

From German Lager.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaːɣɛr/

lager m (genitive singular lagers, nominative plural lagerar)

1. stock, inventory
2. store, stock room

• (antonym(s) of “stock”): vörubirgðir
• (antonym(s) of “store”): vörugeymsla

From German Lager.

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

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

• lagerføre
• lagerrom
• varelager

lager

1. present tense of lage

• IPA^(key): /lɑːɡər/

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• Rhymes: -ər
• Hyphenation: lag‧er

lager m

1. indefinite plural of lag

• “lager” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• alger, galer, lagre, large, regal, regla

From German Lager.

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

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

• lagerføre
• lagerrom
• varelager

• “lager” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːɡɛr/

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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”).

lager n (countable)

2. a store, a warehouse (a place where things are stored, for example before they are moved out to the sales area in a shop)
3. a supply, stock (the things in a store)

   Synonym: förråd n

4. a layer (a single thickness of some material covering a surface)
5. a stratum (one of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another)

   Synonym: skikt n

6. (mechanical engineering) a bearing (a mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction, especially between rotating parts)

From Old Swedish laver, laur, laghur, lagher, laghir, from Middle Dutch lauwer, ultimately from Latin laurus.

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)

• lagerbär
• lagerkrans

Clipping of lageröl, from lager (“store”) +‎ öl (“beer”).

lager c (countable or uncountable)

1. lager (a type of beer)

• lager in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• lager in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• Alger, alger, regla

lager (plural lagerlar)

1. camp