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LaSalle

/ləˈsæl/

LaSalle proper noun: a town in Essex County, Ontario, Canada. Also the alternative form of Lasalle.

lasalle: a town in Essex County, Ontario, Canada
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Proper noun (1)

LaSalle (countable and uncountable, plural LaSalles)

  1. A town in Essex County, Ontario, Canada.
  2. A town in Weld County, Colorado, United States.
  3. A city in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States.
  4. a brand of automobile produced by General Motors between 1927 and 1940.
  5. (countable) A surname from French.
    • Three people who were onboard the twin-engine Cessna 310 when it crashed were killed, according to Michael LaSalle, assistant fire chief with Boca Raton Fire Rescue. […] The plane took off from Boca Raton about 10 a.m. and was headed to Tallahassee, officials said. About 10:12 a.m. Boca Raton fire...2025 April 11, Aaron Cooper and Rebekah Riess, “3 people killed after small plane crashes on busy Boca Raton street”, in CNN

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Lasalle

Lasalle (countable and uncountable, plural Lasalles)

  1. (countable) A surname from French.
  2. A borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Also used as

LaSalle is also the alternative form of Lasalle.

LaSalle is also the ellipsis of LaSalle County.

Forms of LaSalle

pluralLaSalles
alternative formLa Salle
alternative formla Salle
alternative formlaSalle
alternative formLasalle
alternative formSalle
pluralLasalles
alternative formLaSalle

Origin of LaSalle

Borrowed from French La Salle.

From French Lasalle.

Words formed from LaSalle

Words that rhyme with LaSalle

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Questions about LaSalle

What does LaSalle mean?
LaSalle means a town in Essex County, Ontario, Canada.
What part of speech is LaSalle?
LaSalle is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce LaSalle?
LaSalle is pronounced /ləˈsæl/.

Words near LaSalle in the dictionary

  1. lasagnes
  2. lasagnette
  3. lasagnettes
  4. Lasala
  5. Lasalas
  6. LaSalle
  7. LaSalle County
  8. LaSalle Parish
  9. Lasalles
  10. Lasallian
  11. Lasallians

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Adapted from Wiktionary: LaSalle (page history and authors); Lasalle (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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