crème de la crème
Best of the best; something superlative; the very best.
To be an astronaut you must be the crème de la crème.
/ˌɛl ˈeɪ/
noun 9name 5intj 3particle 3adj 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
famous, loneliest, original
VERB + LA
buried, called, drinks, film, forgiven, like, read, reading
LA + NOUN
aux, carte, cemetery, cierva, cr, doth, esperanto, folles
PREP.
in
ADV.
instead
Definitions
noun
1
Initialism of left atrium.
2
Initialism of lead arsenate.
3
Initialism of local anesthetic.
4
Initialism of lateral area.
5
Initialism of local authority.
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.
noun
1
A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.
And now Mrs Waters (for we must confess she was in the same bed), being, I suppose, awakened from her sleep, and seeing two men fighting in her bedchamber, began to scream in the most violent manner, crying out murder! robbery! and more frequently rape! which last, some, perhaps, may wonder she should mention, who do not consider that these words of exclamation are used by ladies in a fright, as fa, la, la, ra, da, &c., are in music, only as the vehicles of sound, and without any fixed ideas.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
avant la lettre
Before the term was coined (the term being a word or phrase used just previously in an anachronistic way)
Suffragettes were feminists avant la lettre.
Example Bank
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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.
Wiktionary02
Speaking as an LA native, this is the longest earthquake I’ve ever felt!
Wiktionary03
And now Mrs Waters (for we must confess she was in the same bed), being, I suppose, awakened from her sleep, and seeing two men fighting in her bedchamber, began to scream in the most violent manner,
Wiktionary04
"La la la la, I can't hear you!" Jimmy said, sticking his fingers in his ears.
Wiktionary05
The only part Lucy had to sing was the interlude, which was a bunch of la la la's, and the last verse of the song, which was only four lines, and the chorus, which was just as short.
Wiktionary06
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 he
WiktionaryUsage Notes
i Register
In some senses, la is marked as obsolete, archaic, humorous, ironic, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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