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say it: LOO-ee-vil
louisville is a noun meaning "the largest city in Kentucky; located in north central Kentucky on the Ohio river; site of the Kentucky Derby". It is pronounced /ˈluiˌvɪl/ — LOO-ee-vil. It carries one recorded sense.
the largest city in Kentucky; located in north central Kentucky on the Ohio river; site of the Kentucky Derby
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 louisville 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.