Usually means: City named after French general.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lafayette: Merriam-Webster
  2. Lafayette: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Lafayette: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Lafayette: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Lafayette: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lafayette, lafayette: Wordnik
  7. LaFayette, Lafayette, lafayette: Wiktionary
  8. Lafayette: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Lafayette, lafayette: Dictionary.com
  10. LaFayette, Lafayette (Louisiana), Lafayette (Tunis), Lafayette (We Hear You Calling), Lafayette (film), Lafayette (name), Lafayette (restaurant), Lafayette: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Lafayette: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. lafayette: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Lafayette: Rhymezone
  14. Lafayette: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. lafayette: FreeDictionary.org
  16. lafayette: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Lafayette: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lafayette (disambiguation), Lafayette: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. baby names list (No longer online)

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  1. lafayette: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lafayettes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (LaFayette)

noun:  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.
noun:  A number of places in the United States named for the Marquis de La Fayette:
noun:  A city in Contra Costa County, California.
noun:  A city and home rule municipality of Boulder County, Colorado.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
noun:  A large city, the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana.
noun:  A small city in Nicollet County, Minnesota.
noun:  A village in Allen County, Ohio.
noun:  A census-designated place in Madison County, Ohio.
noun:  A city in Yamhill County, Oregon.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Macon County, Tennessee.
noun:  A census-designated place in Montgomery County, Virginia.
noun:  A town in Chippewa County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A town in Monroe County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A town in Walworth County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A number of townships in the United States, listed under Lafayette Township.
noun:  (countable) A surname from French.
noun:  (US, countable) A male given name transferred from the surname, originally in honor of the Marquis.
noun:  The dollarfish.
noun:  A fish, the goody or spot (Leiostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States.
noun:  (countable) A surname from French. Alternative form of Lafayette
noun:  A placename
noun:  A city, the county seat of Chambers County, Alabama, United States.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Walker County, Georgia, United States.
noun:  A home rule city in Christian County, Kentucky, United States.
noun:  A town in Onondaga County, New York, United States.

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