louis
noun
louis
1 American
[loo-ee, lwee]
/ ˈlu i, lwi /
noun
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louis
plural
Louis
2
American
[loo-is, loo-ee]
/ ˈlu ɪs, ˈlu i /
noun
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Joe Joseph Louis Barrow, 1914–81, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1937–49.
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a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “loud battle.”
Louis
1
British
/ ˈluːɪs /
noun
louis
2
British
/ ˈluːɪ, lwi /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of louis
First recorded in 1680–90
Example Sentences
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One X user wrote they were “glad that olivia rodrigo and louis partridge are finally dating people their age and not weirdos in their late twenties who think it’s okay to date teens.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
Miller was selected with the 19th overall pick by St. louis in the 2009 MLB draft.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2019
The entire stl area was gonna pay for the stadium not just the city of st. louis.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2016
France fenelon les aventures de telemaque dixyvix in the original it was written specifically for the son of louis XIV, as a text in kingship.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2011
I send him sausages and canned things, in memory of the twenty louis bouquets he used to send me when he was courting me.
From The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) by Vicente Blasco Ib??ez
Shohei Ohtani was out of the lineup Thursday, when the Dodgers posted their batting order hours before the team’s series finale against the St. Louis Cardinals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The match, originally scheduled to be played on one of the outer courts, was moved to the 14,000-capacity Louis Armstrong Stadium after heavy rain in New York.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
In 2016, he moved the Rams from St. Louis to Southern California and, in 2021, to the $5 billion SoFi Stadium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
The study from researchers at Vanderbilt University, Harvard University and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis comes at a time of growing anxiety that AI’s spread is happening too fast.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
“It is generally conceded,” Louis Lépine noted, “that even a dull person would realize the impossibility of selling such a famous work.”
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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