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Laporte

Laporte proper noun: a surname from French.

Proper noun (1)

Laporte (countable and uncountable, plural Laportes)

  1. A surname from French.
  2. A census-designated place in Larimer County, Colorado.
  3. An unincorporated community in Ingersoll Township, Midland County, Michigan.
  4. A minor city in Hubbard County, Minnesota.
  5. A borough, the county seat of Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. Named after John Laporte.
  6. A township in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania, which surrounds the borough.
  7. A hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: LaPorte

LaPorte (plural LaPortes)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Laporte.

Forms of Laporte

pluralLaportes
alternative formLaPorte
pluralLaPortes

Origin of Laporte

Borrowed from French Laporte.

Phrases with Laporte

Questions about Laporte

What does Laporte mean?
Laporte means a surname from French.
What part of speech is Laporte?
Laporte is a proper noun.

Words near Laporte in the dictionary

  1. Lapollas
  2. laponite
  3. laponites
  4. Laporta
  5. Laportas
  6. Laporte
  7. LaPorte County
  8. LaPortes
  9. Laposky
  10. Laposkys
  11. Lapougian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Laporte (page history and authors); LaPorte (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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