Usually means: Household gods of ancient Rome.
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  1. Lares: Merriam-Webster
  2. lares: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Lares: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lares: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Lares, lares: Wordnik
  6. Lares, lares: Wiktionary
  7. lares: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. lares: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Lares: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Lares: Dictionary.com
  11. lares: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. LARES (satellite), LARES, Lares: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Lares: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. lares: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Lares: Rhymezone
  16. Lares: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. lares: FreeDictionary.org
  18. lares: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. Lares: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Lares (Roman deities), lares: Legal dictionary

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  1. Lares (Roman deities), Lares: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LARES: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

(Note: See lar as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Lares)

noun:  (Roman mythology) The household deities watching over one's family and tutelary deities watching over some public places.
noun:  (historical) The idols representing these deities.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Lares [(Roman mythology) The household deities watching over one's family and tutelary deities watching over some public places.]

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