Definitions

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  • proper noun A town in Kentucky.
  • proper noun A female given name derived from the place name, or a blend of the female name prefix La- + Tonia.

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Examples

  • Dad would take us to the aging River Downs facility in Cincinnati during the day and to the even more aging Latonia race track in Northern Kentucky at night.

    Don McNay: Keeneland: The Book Don McNay 2011

  • Dad would take us to the aging River Downs facility in Cincinnati during the day and to the even more aging Latonia race track in Northern Kentucky at night.

    Don McNay: Keeneland: The Book Don McNay 2011

  • KING: At tiny Rosedale Baptist Church in Latonia, Kentucky, with the weekly prayers for the troops in Iraq come growing questions about the president who sent them there.

    CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2006 2006

  • Black girl names beginning with "La-", like Latoya, Latonya, Latonia, Latisha, and Latrice but no mention of Latrine, which obstetricians claim they have to talk vocabulary-challenged mothers out of periodically, after peaking in the 1980s have practically died out in this decade.

    Name Fads Steve Sailer 2005

  • Black girl names beginning with "La-", like Latoya, Latonya, Latonia, Latisha, and Latrice but no mention of Latrine, which obstetricians claim they have to talk vocabulary-challenged mothers out of periodically, after peaking in the 1980s have practically died out in this decade.

    Archive 2005-03-20 Steve Sailer 2005

  • Latonia and Shnikqua Simmons, thank you very much.

    CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2003 2003

  • We got a statement also, Latonia, I want to read to you from the school supervisor.

    CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2003 2003

  • So it was that before he had even reached Times Square, threading his way through the throng westward on Forty-second Street, he was accosted by a dapper white-faced person in a blue serge suit who murmured something, without preamble, concerning "the third race at Latonia," and a "sure thing," and "just around the corner."

    The Rope Dance 1916

  • I followed his gaze to a group of variously garbed men and women who had just rounded the paddock, and who slowly bore down upon us as they drifted from stall to stall in a haphazard inspection of the great racing plant at Latonia.

    Blister Jones John Taintor Foote 1915

  • He's favorite fur the Latonia 'n' there's mebby a hundred boobs in front of the stall rubberin 'at him.

    Blister Jones John Taintor Foote 1915

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