La
[,el'eɪ] or [,ɛl'e]
Definition
(noun.) the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
Edited by Jonathan--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A syllable applied to the sixth tone of the scale in music in solmization.
(n.) The tone A; -- so called among the French and Italians.
(interj.) Look; see; behold; -- sometimes followed by you.
(interj.) An exclamation of surprise; -- commonly followed by me; as, La me!
Edited by Beverly
Examples
- About a mile west from where I had been stopping a road comes up from the southeast, joining that from La Grange to Memphis. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Is there some one in La Granja capable of this? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Comes from La Granja. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Mais ou est donc madame la Comtesse? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- La, Mr. Pickwick,' said Mrs. Bardell, the crimson rising to her cap- border again. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There's nothing like it in the rue de la Paix, she said. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- En resume, L'OBSERVATION des animaux sauvages demontre deja la variabilite LIMITEE des especes. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- La première qui ouvrira cette porte, ou passera par cette division, sera pendue--fut-ce Madame Beck elle-même! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Piacer e popone Vuol la sua stagione. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Donnez-moi la main, said he, and the spite and jealousy melted out of his face, and a generous kindliness shone there instead. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I saw both of them shot and my father said, '_Viva la Republica_,' when they shot him standing against the wall of the slaughterhouse of our village. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Not for nothing is she called La Pasionaria. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A bas la France, la Fiction et les Faquins! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In La Follette's Magazine (Feb. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If Fred Bentinck meets a woman of my loose morals in this dress, _il croira que c'est la belle Madeleine! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Edited by Ervin