Definition of Shreveport

1. Noun. A city in northwest Louisiana on the Red River near the Texas border.

Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center
Group relationships: La, Louisiana, Pelican State

Definition of Shreveport

1. Proper noun. A city in the state of Louisiana, America. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shreveport

Shoshonean language
Shoshones
Shoshoni
Shoshonian
Shoshonian language
Shostakovich
Shotokan
Shover
Show Me State
ShpII metalloprotease
ShpI metalloprotease
Shraddha
Shrapnell
Shrapnell's membrane
Shravas
Shreveport
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury cake
Shrewsbury cakes
Shrimper
Shriner
Shriners
Shrops
Shropshire
Shrove Sunday
Shrove Tuesday
Shrovetide
Shtokavian
Shua
Shuadit

Literary usage of Shreveport

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1914)
"The complaint was that the appellants, and other interstate carriers, maintained unreasonable rates from shreveport, Louisiana, to various points in Texas, ..."

2. Leading Cases on American Constitutional Law by Lawrence Boyd Evans (1916)
"[Complaint was made to the Interstate Commerce Commission that a carrier operating between Dallas, Texas, and shreveport, Louisiana, made rates eastward ..."

3. Bulletin by United States Weather Bureau (1904)
"Red River at and beyond shreveport, La., by Mr. JW Cronk, Observer.—An enormous loss to all interests in the Red River Valley was the unavoidable result of ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"... to be received by petitioners when paid by or collected from steamboats at the wharves of shreveport, until the entire amount of such indebtedness under ..."

5. Supplemental Digest of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Act by Herbert Confield Lust (1915)
"But over this route the short-line distance to shreveport Is 589 miles; in any event, the distance to shreveport exceeding that to Tex- arkana by 63 miles. ..."

6. The Manual of Statistics: Stock Exchange Hand-book . by Financial News Association (New York, Charles M. Goodsell, Henry E. Wallace (1908)
"WF Taylor, shreveport. Main office, shreveport, La. President's office, Hibernia Building, New Orleans. Annual meeting:, first Tuesday after first Monday in ..."

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