Lou
noun
a male given name, form of Louis.
lou
British
/ luː /
verb
Example Sentences
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"As of right now, still no water and electricity," Lou Rosario, a spokeswoman for the Municipal Operations Center on Rota, confirmed on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
Maria Lou Calanche, executive director of the nonprofit Expanded Learning Alliance, trailed Hernandez, according to early returns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
Civil rights activist and former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer was weary when she spoke alongside Malcolm X at a church in Harlem in December 1964.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
As for the contest itself, it featured such legends as Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Al Simmons and Lefty Gomez for the Americans, who were managed by Connie Mack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Lou looks over at my grandma, who nods slightly.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Sophisticated savers are turning instead to Treasury bills that pay nearly 7%; commercial paper, a form of corporate lou, that yields 7.5%; and commercial-bank certificates of deposit, that pay almost 8%.
From Time Magazine Archive
These tower-like buildings are called lou by the Chinese.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry
Oh! que nàni; de laire, Vesin, vesino o barrulaire, T'an vist cava lou pous.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard
According to David, descent is proved by internal resemblances: "L'home a lou dintre d'un por."
From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
Here, for instance, in at least five languages, is a twelfth century cure for gout: Meu, treu, mor, phor, Teux, za, zor, Phe, lou, chri Ge, ze, on.
From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous
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