Louisa
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /luːˈiːzə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Proper noun
Louisa
- A female given name from the Germanic languages, a latinized form of Louise used since the eighteenth century.
- 1830, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names::
- 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!
- 1854, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:
- 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.
- A ghost town in California.
- A city, the county seat of Lawrence County, Kentucky, adjacent to Fort Gay, West Virginia.
- A town, the county seat of Louisa County, Virginia, United States.
Derived terms
Translations
female given name — see Louise
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [luˈiːza]
Audio (Austria) (file) Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Lou‧i‧sa
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈluisa/
Proper noun
Louisa
- a female given name from English, equivalent to English Louisa
- Grace Natalie Louisa, b. 1982
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