louis

¹

[ loo-ee; French lwee ]

noun

, plural lou·is [loo, -eez, lwee].

1. louis d'or.

Louis

²

[ loo-is loo-ee ]

noun

1. Joe Joseph Louis Barrow, 1914–81, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1937–49.
2. a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “loud battle.”

Louis

¹

/ ˈluːɪs /

noun

1. LouisJoe19141981MUSSPORT AND GAMES: boxer Joe, real name Joseph Louis Barrow, nicknamed the Brown Bomber. 1914–81, US boxer; world heavyweight champion (1937–49)

louis

²

/ ˈluːɪ; lwi /

noun

1. short for louis d'or

Word History and Origins

Origin of louis¹

First recorded in 1680–90

Example Sentences

Louis held its first elections this week under a new “approval voting” system, designed to prevent spoiler candidates or wasted votes in the overwhelmingly Democratic city.

From Washington Post

Investigators did interview his 8-year-old one day when they came to talk to Louis, who wasn’t home at the time.

From ProPublica

I could ask Louis questions and bounce things off of him, what we might anticipate.

From ProPublica

Stokes’s brother, Louis, served in the House of Representatives and was able to secure federal funding for cleanup efforts on the Cuyahoga River.

From Outside Online

Louis has worked at the Manufacturing Solutions Center since it was founded, in 1990, as a division of Catawba Valley Community College.

From MIT Technology Review

What got leaked to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on October 22?

From The Daily Beast

But publicly throwing shade at Louis Vuitton wasn't Kanye's first fashion faux pas.

From The Daily Beast

In St. Louis, I believe, for a change of clothes and to go to a nightclub.

From The Daily Beast

The Julia Louis-Dreyfus series is not just the funniest show on the network, it's the funniest show on TV.

From The Daily Beast

And so it is with the St. Louis Rams and the St. Louis Police Officers Association.

From The Daily Beast

Louis stood firm, though pale and respectful, before the resentful gaze of Elizabeth.

From Project Gutenberg

The Princess still kept her eyes fixed on Louis, while, in a suppressed and unsteady voice, she answered her governess.

From Project Gutenberg

At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.

From Project Gutenberg

Without any known cause of offence, a tacit acknowledgement of mutual dislike was shewn by Louis and de Patinos.

From Project Gutenberg

But, there was also another which might not be quite so pleasing to Elizabeth, although Louis felt it came too late for him.

From Project Gutenberg