leper, lazar
(noun) a person afflicted with leprosy
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Lazar
A British surname.
Lazar
A Serbian male given name from Serbo-Croatian
Lazar
An Ashkenazi Jewish surname.
Lazar (plural Lazars)
Alternative letter-case form of lazar
lazar (plural lazars)
(archaic) A sufferer of an infectious disease, especially leprosy.
Source: Wiktionary
La"zar, n. Etym: [OF. lazare, fr. Lazarus the beggar. Luke xvi. 20.]
Definition: A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper. Chaucer. Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay. Spenser. Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
