say it: loo-ee-zee-AN-uh
louisiana is a noun meaning "a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War". It carries one recorded sense.
a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for louisiana come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.