Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A type of beer of German origin that contains a relatively small amount of hops and is aged from six weeks to six months to allow sedimentation. Also called lager beer.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as lager-beer (which see, under beer).
Wiktionary
- n. A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.
- n. alternative spelling of laager.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Lager beer.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons
- n. a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September
Etymologies
- From German Lagerbier ("beer made for storing"), from Lager ("store"). (Wiktionary)
- German, short for Lagerbier : Lager, storehouse, cellar (from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, bed, lair) + Bier, beer. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“One of the meanings of the German word 'lager' is a storehouse.”
“The word lager is German and means a storehouse or storage place.”
“This German "beer" is what we call a lager, and it is brewed with bottom-fermenting yeasts.”
“… “How have we got ourselves into a situation where lager is being sold cheaper than water?””
““How have we got ourselves into a situation where lager is being sold cheaper than water?””
“Hang On A Minute … … .. [image] How have we got ourselves into a situation where lager is being sold cheaper than […] [...] on February 15, 2008 at 10: 54 am | Reply Dan”
“May heatwaves give me the urge to spend late afternoons in a pub in the City leaning against a hot dusty wall and drinking lager from the bottle.”
“From plain Danish lager via the special beers from Carlsberg to Belgian beers.”
“For some young urbanites, renting "The Matrix" and reaching for a lager is a much-needed escape -- particularly for those in New Economy careers like media, advertising or information technology.”
“Heck, Capital alone makes five: Oktoberfest, Autumnal Fire (an Oktoberfest doppelbock), the Rustic Ale, the Wisconsin Amber (an amber lager), and the Winter Skal (a Vienna lager, which is an amber that uses specific types of malts).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lager’.
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Beer and Brewing
Words about beer and the making of it.
airlock, bung, carboy, diversol, hops, mashtun, beer, sparge, trub, wort, malt, malt liquor and 184 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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emordnilap
reviled, loot, no, ta, rat, part, pit, stop, spat, ten, mad, mart and 108 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Wort to the wise
Brewing terms
wort, gruit, metheglin, mead, perry, mulsum, finings, irish moss, malt, hops, morat, melomel and 43 more...
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-ager
Any word ending in -ager. And because I'm feeling generous tonight, I'll even let in words ending in -adger.
voyager, teenager, wager, pager, manager, dowager, badger, cadger, lager, rager, mumager, tanager and 14 more...
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dharma66's list
words that pique my interest either by meaning, pronunciation, or spelling, and words that otherwise tickle my fancy!!
pique, elusive, serendipity, nefarious, redundant, pseudoscientific, obsequious, flack, quandary, impervious, perchance, translucent and 168 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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CCW
Commonly Confused Words
wreath, wreathe, titillate, titivate, proscribe, prescribe, pedal, peddle, mettle, metal, palette, palate and 132 more...
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rich words
auburn, aureole, relic, reliquary, aureate, umber, lyric, elegy, requiem, jacinth, sable, penumbra and 95 more...
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Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
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words from the German
kindergarten, sturm und drang, schadenfreude, zeppelin, blitzkreig, blitz, krieg, panzer, angst, nazi, zeitgeist, doppelganger and 107 more...
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The Motherland! (God Bless the Queen)
Words that remind me of England, which I miss very much.
snog, nappy, wanker, telly, knickers, crumpet, pants, bum, loo, bollocks, stroppy, whinge and 108 more...
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spamdad's Words
lambic, weizenbock, bock, zymurgy, vade mecum, quotidian, sesquipedalian, eremite, sphragis, privation, aegis, sui generis and 275 more...
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I Drink Your...
I drink it up!
milkshake, smoothie, egg cream, coolatta, horchata, lassi, slurpee, Arnold Palmer, Shirley Temple, coffee, tea, cappuccino and 42 more...
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Beer!
trappist, lager, ale, maibock, bass, amber, kölsch, hefeweizen, weizenbock, india pale ale, stout, cider and 33 more...
Tweets
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vanishedone WeirdNet's preferred sense is absent from the O.E.D., although it does turn up on dictionary.com (credited to the Random House Dictionary) as an alternative spelling of laager. Jun 4, 2009
oroboros Regal in reverse. Jul 22, 2007