BATON ROUGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Baton Rouge mean? 

• BATON ROUGE (noun)
  The noun BATON ROUGE has 1 sense:

1. capital of Louisiana

  Familiarity information: BATON ROUGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATON ROUGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital of Louisiana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Baton Rouge; capital of Louisiana

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Meronyms (parts of "Baton Rouge"):

Baton Rouge Bridge (a cantilever bridge across the Mississippi at Baton Rouge)

Holonyms ("Baton Rouge" is a part of...):

LA; La.; Louisiana; Pelican State (a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

 Context examples 

This Sir Gaston is a very worthy man, said he to his squires as they rode from the Baton Rouge.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Its capital is Baton Rouge.

(Louisiana, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, reported that health and longevity improved with increased fasting time, regardless of what the mice ate or how many calories they consumed.

(Longer daily fasting times improve health and longevity, National Institutes of Health)

There they found Sir Nigel Loring and Ford safely lodged at the sign of the “Baton Rouge,” where they supped on good fare and slept between lavender-scented sheets.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)