louisiana purchase

1. 1.

   territory in the western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million; extends from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada

   Broaderdistrict

   Part ofUnited States

Questions about louisiana purchase

What does louisiana purchase mean?

louisiana purchase means "territory in the western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million; extends from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada".

Is louisiana purchase a common word?

louisiana purchase is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.