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Louisa

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //luːˈiːzə//

A female given name from the Germanic languages, a latinized form of Louise used since the eighteenth century.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from the Germanic languages, a latinized form of Louise used since the eighteenth century.

    But certainly there are some names which seem to belong to particular classes of character, to form the mind and even influence the destiny: Louisa, now; - is not your Louisa necessarily a die-away damsel, who reads novels, and holds her head on one side, languishing and given to love!

    On being told that Mrs. Bounderby was there, she replied, at cross-purposes, that she had never called him by that name since he married Louisa; that pending her choice of an objectionable name, she had called him J; and that she could not at present depart from that regulation, not being yet provided with a permanent substitute.

  2. 2

    A ghost town in California.

  3. 3

    A city, the county seat of Lawrence County, Kentucky, adjacent to Fort Gay, West Virginia.

  4. 4

    A town, the county seat of Louisa County, Virginia, United States.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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