Lafayette Definition

lăfē-ĕt, läfē-, -fä-
proper name
(born Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier) 1757-1834; Fr. military officer & statesman: a general (1777-81) in the Continental army during the American Revolution.
Webster's New World
City in SC La.
Webster's New World
pronoun

Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette (1757 – 1834), a French aristocrat who is considered a national hero in both France and the United States for his participation in the French and American revolutions.

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Any of a number of U.S. places named for the Marquis de La Fayette, including a large city in Louisiana.

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(US) A male given name, originally in honor of the Marquis.
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noun

The dollarfish.

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A market fish, the goody or spot (Liostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States.

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Synonyms:
  • marquis de lafayette
  • Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier
  • la fayette
other
A city of west-central Indiana on the Wabash River northwest of Indianapolis. Purdue University was established near here in 1869.
American Heritage
A city of south-central Louisiana west-southwest of Baton Rouge. Settled by Acadians in the 1700s, it is a center of Cajun culture and has a large petrochemicals industry.
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Other Word Forms of Lafayette

Noun

Singular:
Lafayette
Plural:
lafayettes

Origin of Lafayette

  • French surname from Occitan, "the little beech tree".

    From Wiktionary

Lafayette Sentence Examples

  • In a niche is a Houdon bust of Lafayette, a replica of the original presented to the city of Paris by the state of Virginia.

  • He graduated in 1840 from Lafayette College, where he was tutor in mathematics (1840-1842) and adjunct professor (1843-1844).

  • He served in the army as marechal-de-camp under Luckner and Lafayette, but was accused of treason on the 15th of August 17 9 2, fled the country, and was imprisoned by the Austrians.

  • The older formation of the Quaternary period is the Lafayette (also called "Orange-sand" or "stratified drift"), which immediately overlies all the Cretaceous groups except the prairies of the Selma chalk, and all the Tertiary except the Porters Creek and Vicksburg formations and parts of the Jackson.

  • Mirabeau at first attempted again to make an alliance with Lafayette, but it was useless, for Lafayette was not a strong man himself and did not appreciate "la force" in others.

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