Lafayette

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• A city of west-central Indiana on the Wabash River northwest of Indianapolis. Purdue University was established near here in 1869.
• A city of south-central Louisiana west-southwest of Baton Rouge. Settled by Acadians in the 1700s, it is a center of Cajun culture and has a large petrochemicals industry.
• Gilbert du Motier de,French soldier and politician who fought in the American Revolution and was active in the 1789 and 1830 revolutions in France.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A sciænoid fish of the northern United States, Liostomus xanthurus, of an oblong form, with the back elevated toward the front, a steep profile, and no teeth in the lower jaw.
• noun A stromateoid fish, Stromateus triacanthus; the butter-fish, dollar-fish, or harvest-fish. See cut under butter-fish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The dollar fish.
• noun A market fish, the goody, or spot (Liostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• proper 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.
• proper noun Any of a number of U.S. places named for the Marquis de La Fayette, including a large city in Louisiana.
• proper noun US A male given name, originally in honor of the Marquis.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a university town in west central Indiana on the Wabash River
• noun a town in south central Louisiana; settled by Acadians
• noun French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution (1757-1834)
• noun French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution (1757-1834)