English Explanatory Dictionary

Louisiade

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An archipelago, southeast of New Guinea, consisting of a string of ten larger volcanic islands and 90 smaller coral islands.

Word forms

Louisiade the Louisiade

Etymology

Named in 1768 by Louis Antoine de Bougainville after Louis XV, the king of France (though they had been discovered long before).

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