LOUISVILLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Louisville mean? 

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

1. the largest city in Kentucky; located in north central Kentucky on the Ohio river; site of the Kentucky Derby

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOUISVILLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest city in Kentucky; located in north central Kentucky on the Ohio river; site of the Kentucky Derby

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Meronyms (parts of "Louisville"):

Churchill Downs (a racetrack for thoroughbred racing in Louisville; site of the Kentucky Derby)

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

Bluegrass State; Ken.; Kentucky; KY (a state in east central United States; a border state during the American Civil War; famous for breeding race horses)

 Context examples 

The galaxy has been nicknamed Rubin’s galaxy, after astronomer Vera Rubin (1928 – 2016), by Benne Holwerda of the University of Louisville, Kentucky, who observed the galaxy with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

(Hubble Surveys Gigantic Galaxy, NASA)

One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house—just as if it were five years ago.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"Still—I was married in the middle of June," Daisy remembered, "Louisville in June! Somebody fainted. Who was it fainted, Tom?"

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

He came back from France when Tom and Daisy were still on their wedding trip, and made a miserable but irresistible journey to Louisville on the last of his army pay.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Well, he said he knew you. He said he was raised in Louisville. Asa Bird brought him around at the last minute and asked if we had room for him.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

From Louisville. Our white girlhood was passed together there. Our beautiful white—

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)