English > Louisiana: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | A state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states / states during the American Civil War. |
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| Synonyms | Pelican State, LA, La. |
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| Instance of | American state | One of the 50 states of the United States |
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| Member of | Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, South, Dixie, Dixieland | The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 |
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| Part of | Deep South | The southeastern region of the United States |
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| Gulf States | A region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico |
| South | The region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line |
| United States, United States of America, America, the States, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A. | 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 |
| Parts | Alexandria | A town in Louisiana on the Red River |
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| Baton Rouge, capital of Louisiana | Capital of Louisiana |
| Lafayette | A town in south central Louisiana |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Shreveport | A city in northwest Louisiana on the Red River near the Texas border |
| Spanish | Louisiana, Luisiana |
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| Catalan | Luisiana |
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