LAFAYETTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lafayette mean? 

• LAFAYETTE (noun)
  The noun LAFAYETTE has 3 senses:

1. French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution (1757-1834)

2. a town in south central Louisiana; settled by Acadians

3. a university town in west central Indiana on the Wabash River

  Familiarity information: LAFAYETTE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAFAYETTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution (1757-1834)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

La Fayette; Lafayette; Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier; Marquis de Lafayette

Instance hypernyms:

soldier (an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A town in south central Louisiana; settled by Acadians

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Lafayette" is a part of...):

LA; La.; Louisiana; Pelican State (a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A university town in west central Indiana on the Wabash River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Lafayette" is a part of...):

Hoosier State; IN; Ind.; Indiana (a state in midwestern United States)

 Context examples 

That's the theory put forth by NASA-funded scientists at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.

(Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One Day, NASA)

Sheridan Ackiss of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, and collaborators used the orbiter's mineral-mapping spectrometer to investigate surface composition in an oddly textured region of southern Mars called Sisyphi Montes.

(Clues about Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars, NASA)