Larissa

or La·ri·sa

[ luh-ris-uh; Greek lah-ree-sah ]

noun

1. a city in E Thessaly, in E Greece.

Example Sentences

On hearing about our failed attempt, she invited Larissa and I over to try again with her.

From Eater

Baking bebinca with Larissa reminded me that the joy in cooking comes from doing it with others.

From Eater

My mother, sister-in-law Larissa, and I sat together to curate a list of what would feature in our Christmas tray, or kusvar.

From Eater

When Larissa got married, the dog bit her husband seven times.

From Washington Post

And it is grieving for one of its congregation: Larissa Atanázio, who was 14.

From The Daily Beast

Larissa MacFarquhar has an excellent, zillion-word piece in the current New Yorker about Kennedy.

From The Daily Beast

One year he is making a raid into Macedonia and Thessaly and plundering Larissa.

From Project Gutenberg

In the neighborhood of Larissa the events of war were protracted and balanced.

From Project Gutenberg

The fertility of Larissa tends, as far as it goes, to mark the Pelasgi as a people of cultivators, having settled habits of life.

From Project Gutenberg

Now it may have been the general rule to call the citadels of the Pelasgian towns Larissa.

From Project Gutenberg

From this it would appear that in the days of Homer, though there were many Pelasgi in various places, there was but one Larissa.

From Project Gutenberg