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“Laager” or “Lager” or “Logger”

laager / lager / logger are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

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Definitions

What each term means

Same sound, different spellings and meanings, shown with a pronunciation guide for each term.

laager

  • nouna camp defended by a circular formation of wagons.

lager l·AA·g·er

  • nouna 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.

logger l·AA·g·er

No dictionary entry for this spelling — see the usage examples below for how it shows up in writing.

Usage

Examples in context

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“laager”

  • …narrow escapes getting back into laager."
  • …the Ndebele assault on their laager with the loss of two…
  • …at uMgungundlovu, and making a laager of wagons at the mouth…
  • …forming into a circular defensive laager on the model pioneered by…
  • The Boers set up their laager camp in the area of…

“lager”

  • …is a 5% abv pale lager beer.
  • Lager, Linn (2003), 'Runestones and the…
  • …the OT workers was built, Lager Westmark, many of the workers,…
  • …less bitter than a pale lager with an IBU of 30,…
  • …to Austria and confined in Lager Klessheim, Salzburg.
  • Lager beer Hell: a very soft…
  • SIBA Champion Coloured and Dark Lager 2011 (Bronze) for Dunkel
  • …finale of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.
  • …couple bottles of ice cold lager".
  • …include Upcider cider, Lapin Kulta lager beer, Karjala beer and is…

“logger”

  • …and more recently a data logger or personal computer records the…
  • …via a pageant, the oldest-living logger residing in the town is…
  • Park Avenue Logger (1937)

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