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Latewake
- - See Lich wake, under Lich.
Latinate
- adjective - derived from or imitative of Latin
Latinise
- verb - cause to adopt Catholicism
- write in the Latin alphabet; "many shops in Japan now carry neon signs with Romanized names"
Latinize
- verb - cause to adopt Catholicism
- translate into Latin
- write in the Latin alphabet; "many shops in Japan now carry neon signs with Romanized names"
Latitude
- noun - an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
- freedom from normal restraints in conduct; "the new freedom in movies and novels"; "allowed his children considerable latitude in how they spent their money"
- scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction
- the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself
Laudable
- adjective - Praiseworthy
- worthy of high praise;
Laureate
- adjective - someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath
- worthy of the greatest honor or distinction;
Lausanne
- noun - a city in western Switzerland; cultural and commercial center
Lawrence
- noun - a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856
- English actress (1898-1952)
- English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
- English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
- Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258)
- United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958)
- Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935)