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louisiana
/luˌiziˈænə/
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What does louisiana mean?
proper noun
- A state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. Capital: Baton Rouge. Largest city: New Orleans.
- A city in Pike County, Missouri, named for the founder's daughter, Louisiana Bayse.
- A ghost town in Douglas County, Kansas.
More meanings (5)
proper noun
- The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and especially its athletic program, the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns.
- A female given name.
- (historical) An administrative district of New France. (1682–1769; 1801–1803)
- (historical) A governorate of New Spain. (1769–1801)
- (historical) A former territory of the United States. (1805–1812)
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IPA pronunciation
/luˌiziˈænə/
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N. O. Nelson writes he has bought many Louisiana farms for his cooperative enterprise for about what the improvements are worth.
If a mother shall teach her children to read, the law in Louisiana proclaims that she may be hanged by the neck.
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They sought to connect Canada and Louisiana by a chain of armed towns and fortified posts, which were sparsely though gradually erected.
I, with a train load of other strikers, went to Louisiana and the whole bunch of us were practically forced into peonage.
Some of the best Louisiana pecans are said to come true from seed, and may be sown where they are intended to grow.