LOUISIANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Louisiana mean? 

• LOUISIANA (noun)
  The noun LOUISIANA has 1 sense:

1. a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

  Familiarity information: LOUISIANA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOUISIANA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

LA; La.; Louisiana; Pelican State

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Louisiana"):

Alexandria (a town in Louisiana on the Red River)

Baton Rouge; capital of Louisiana (capital of Louisiana)

Lafayette (a town in south central Louisiana; settled by Acadians)

Monroe (a town in north central Louisiana)

Morgan City (a town in southeast Louisiana to the south of Baton Rouge)

New Orleans (a port and largest city in Louisiana; located in southeastern Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi river; a major center for offshore drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico; jazz originated here among black musicians in the late 19th century; Mardi Gras is celebrated here each year)

Shreveport (a city in northwest Louisiana on the Red River near the Texas border)

Ouachita; Ouachita River (a river that rises in western Arkansas and flows southeast into eastern Louisiana to become a tributary of the Red River)

Red; Red River (a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana)

Holonyms ("Louisiana" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Gulf States (a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas)

South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)

Deep South (the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery)

Holonyms ("Louisiana" is a member of...):

Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)

 Context examples 

The gravitational waves were detected on September 14, 2015 by both of the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors, located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, USA.

(Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein's Prediction, NASA)

The team, which includes researchers from Montana State University, Louisiana State University and Aberystwyth University in Wales, used a combination of measurements of methane concentrations and genomic analyses to describe how lake bacteria chemically convert methane in a way that reduces the warming potential of subglacial gases during ice sheet retreats.

(Methane-eating bacteria in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice sheet may reduce greenhouse gas emissions, National Science Foundation)

A team of scientists led by Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium collected data to determine the size of the dead zone during a survey mission from July 24 to 31 aboard the R/V Pelican.

(Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ is the largest ever measured, NOAA)

Michael Polito of Louisiana State University co-led a team of researchers working to understand how human hunting of seals and whales over the last century, and fishing in modern times, has affected penguin populations.

(Whaling and climate change lead to 100 years of feast or famine for Antarctic penguins, National Science Foundation)

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)

The collision was observed Aug. 14 at 10:30:43 a.m. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) using the two National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, and the Virgo detector, funded by CNRS and INFN and located near Pisa, Italy.

(LIGO and Virgo observatories jointly detect black hole collision, National Science Foundation)

This terrible secret society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I would have accepted without question the information that Gatsby sprang from the swamps of Louisiana or from the lower East Side of New York.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)