LOUISIANA PURCHASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Louisiana Purchase mean? 

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

1. territory in the western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million; extends from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOUISIANA PURCHASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Territory in the western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million; extends from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

Holonyms ("Louisiana Purchase" 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)