ira   (TTS Sound)

The noun ira has 3 senses

• Irish Republican Army, IRA, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Provisional IRA, Provos -- (a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland)


• individual retirement account, IRA -- (a retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement; taxes on the interest earned in the account are deferred)


• wrath, anger, ire, ira -- (belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins))