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Alvar

or al·var

[ ahl-vahr ]

noun

, Hinduism.
  1. (in southern India) a holy person of the Vaishnava sect.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Alvar1

From Tamil āl̤vār, derivative of ār̤- “sink, be absorbed (as in contemplation)”

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Example Sentences

"Don Alvar de Mendoce, for example," muttered Alphonse, between his teeth.

Your mother didn't sell the Alvar Street house until January of 1944.

In any event it was a house different from or other than the 2109 Alvar?

Now, you lead me to ask something I should have asked heretofore, tell me about the neighborhood at 2109 Alvar.

Alvar was born in Xeres de la Frontera, Spain, toward the last of the fifteenth century.

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