Louisa

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /luːˈiːzə/
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Proper noun

Louisa

  1. 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.
  2. A ghost town in California.
  3. A city, the county seat of Lawrence County, Kentucky, adjacent to Fort Gay, West Virginia.
  4. A town, the county seat of Louisa County, Virginia, United States.

Derived terms

Translations

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [luˈiːza]
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  • Hyphenation: Lou‧i‧sa

Proper noun

Louisa f (genitive Louisas or Louisa)

  1. a female given name, variant of Luise

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English Louisa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈluisa/

Proper noun

Louisa

  1. a female given name from English, equivalent to English Louisa
    Grace Natalie Louisa, b. 1982
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