New Orleans

Speech parts

1. New Orleans - Noun

2. New Orleans - Proper noun

Meaning

a port and largest city in Louisiana; located in southeastern Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi river; a major center for offshore drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico; jazz originated here among black musicians in the late 19th century; Mardi Gras is celebrated here each year

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Synonyms

Crescent City Big Easy nola Orleans Parish mardi gras city n'erlins america's favorite city america's most european city birthplace of jazz chopper city city of a million dreams city of yes city that care forgot convention city gateway of the mississippi valley
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Related terms

Orleans Parish New Orleanian

Examples

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. Boris Vian

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before. John Goodman

For a long time I thought I knew for sure who I was. I grew up in New Orleans and became a comedian. And there was everything that came along with that. The nightclubs. The smoking. The drinking. Then I turned 13. Ellen DeGeneres

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin. Mark Twain

Well, I'm reading about the battle of New Orleans right now. I've got an ecolectic [sic] reading list. George W. Bush

There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad. Christopher Hitchens

Close letter words and terms

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