st. louis

Questions about st. louis

What does st. louis mean?

st. louis means "the largest city in Missouri; a busy river port on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri River; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for st. louis?

Close synonyms include Saint Louis, Gateway to the West, Louis IX, Saint Louis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is st. louis a common word?

st. louis is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.