Louisville
Americannoun
noun
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The Kentucky Derby, a famous horse race, is held there every spring.
Other Word Forms
- Louisvillian noun
Example Sentences
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Newspapers in Boston and Louisville ran longer accounts of the Rochester events.
From Literature
It will begin next month, when the Birmingham Stallions and the Louisville Kings kick off the new season of the United Football League.
It was the only time in his baseball life — aside from his freshman year at the University of Louisville — that Rushing was not a regular fixture in his team’s lineup.
From Los Angeles Times
A few days later, Naiser headed home to Louisville, Ky., after a stop in Michigan, where he dropped off the fish—49 pounds, 63.5 inches—to be filleted and mounted.
The “glitterball” of the title, the fixture of nightclub life for decades, was created in Louisville, or so the series claims, and serves as a convoluted metaphor for that Kentucky city.
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