(n)a member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand and speaking the Lao language; related to the Thais, Syn.Laotian
(n)(Greek mythology) the priest of Apollo who warned the Trojans to beware of Greeks bearing gifts when they wanted to accept the Trojan Horse; a god who favored the Greeks (Poseidon or Athena) sent snakes who coiled around Laocoon and his two twin sons killing them
(n)a kind of reed mouth organ in northeastern Thailand, See Also:Lao reed mouth-organ, Example:หมอแคนประจำหมู่บ้านเป่าแคนเป็นเพลงที่ถนัดสร้างความครื้นเครงให้แก่ชาวบ้าน, Thai Definition:เครื่องดนตรีทางถิ่นอีสาน ทำด้วยไม้ซางผูกเรียงต่อกับเต้าแคนสำหรับเป่าเป็นเพลง
prop. n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; ] 1. (Class. Myth.) A priest of Apollo, during the Trojan war. (See 2.) [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Sculp.) A marble group in the Vatican at Rome, representing the priest Laocoön, with his sons, infolded in the coils of two serpents, as described by Virgil. [ 1913 Webster ]
[老, lǎo, ㄌㄠˇ]prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity; old (of people); venerable (person); experienced; of long standing; always; all the time; of the pas#295[Add to Longdo]
[老子, Lǎo Zǐ, ㄌㄠˇ ㄗˇ]Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经 by Laozi#3812[Add to Longdo]