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LA
Abbreviation
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Louisiana, a state of the United States of America.
I live in Baton Rouge, LA.
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Lao People's Democratic Republic, a member state of the United Nations.
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Lampung, a province of Indonesia.
LA
Initialism
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Los Angeles, a city in the state of California in the United States.
We went to LA for the summer.
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Lead arsenate, a pesticide introduced in the United States in 1892, mostly replaced by DDT in the late 1940s, and banned in 1988.
folie
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noun
(= psychological disorder)
(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
DE
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noun
(= Delaware)
a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
mel
noun
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(psychoacoustics) A common scale of pitches that are perceived by listeners to be equally spaced from one another, or one unit on that scale.
Mel
properNoun
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Short form of female given names such as Melanie, Melinda, Melissa, Melina, Melody and Carmel.
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Short form of the male given names Melvin and Melvyn.
Brooks
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noun
United States literary critic and historian (1886-1963)