la

adj

Etymology: From French la, Italian la.

1. Prefixed to the name of a woman, with ironic effect (as though an opera prima donna).

   “Following lukewarm on the heels of an article a few weeks ago, where (I paraphrase due to having filed the relevant copy in the recycling bin) Victoria Beckham made a "well-meaning" remark that the other Spice Girls might want to lose a few pounds, we now have a new incidence of La Beckham's scintillating and entirely well-meaning humour.”

   “By judicious leaking, he also managed to make la Kirkpatrick and her associates look rather unsavory.”

intj

Etymology: From Middle English la, from Old English lā. More at lo.

1. Used to introduce a statement with emphatic or intensive effect.
2. Expressing surprise, anger. etc.

   “La, ma'am, what doth your la'ship think? the girl that your la'ship saw at church on Sunday, whom you thought so handsome; though you would not have thought her so handsome neither, if you had seen her nearer, but to be sure she hath been carried before the justice for being big with child.”

   ““Oh, la! here come the Richardsons. I had a vast deal more to say to you, but I must not stay away from them any longer.””

name

1. Initialism of Los Angeles: a city in California, United States.

   “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.”

   “Speaking as an LA native, this is the longest earthquake I’ve ever felt!”

2. Abbreviation of Louisiana: a state of the United States.
3. Abbreviation of Ladakh: a union territory of India.
4. Abbreviation of Lower Arkansas, also in reference to the state of Louisiana.
5. Abbreviation of Lampung: a province of Indonesia.
6. Initialism of Las Anod: a city in Somalia.
7. Initialism of Linear A.

noun

1. Abbreviation of lane (in street addresses).
2. Alternative form of LA.

particle

1. Alternative form of lah.