name An Irish place name, associated with the Hill of Tara, seat of ancient Irish kings.
- No more to chiefs and ladies bright The harp of Tara swells
— Thomas Moore (1808)
name A male first name.
- the story of Tara Cochrane, a war veteran, a physician, and a burned-out man who describes himself in terms of a bad cigarette
— Janice Holt Giles (1952)
noun Another word for the tern.
- These are Hine-karoro (origin and personification of the karoro, or black-billed gull), the next born being Hine-tara (the tara, or tern); the next is Hine-tore. The last born of that lot was Punga, the origin of[…]
— Royal Society of New Zealand (1909)
- Another account says that a tara (tern) and other birds alighted at Tahunatapu, the first part of the fish to surface, and that Maui greeted its appearance with an incantation that included the words : Appears the great land lying[…]
— Alexander Wyclif Reed (1977)
- Most numerous and widespread of the terns of Aotearoa are the tara, or white-fronted terns. Another species, also named tara , is the smaller black-fronted tern.[…]
— Margaret Orbell (2003)
- Again it is said that the tara (tern) alighted on the new land at Tahunatapu, the first part to emerge from the sea, and was followed by other birds. Māui recited an incantation of welcome which included the words : Appears the[…]
— Alexander Wyclif Reed (2004)
noun A small silver coin once used in South India, dating from around the time the Portuguese first arrived there.
- The only silver coin of this empire reported so far is a Tara of the time of Pratāpa devaraya.
— The Journal of the Numismatic Society of India (1979)
