Definitions for Joliet

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Joliet Jo·li·et

Spelling: [joh-lee-et; for 1 also French zhaw-lye]

IPA: /ˌdʒoʊ liˈɛt; for 1 also French ʒɔˈlyɛ/

Joliet is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in Joliet (eijlot).

Definitions for Joliet

noun

1. Louis [lwee] /lwi/ (Show IPA), 1645–1700, French explorer of the Mississippi, born in Canada.
2. a city in NE Illinois.
3. Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1645–1700, French-Canadian explorer, born in Quebec.

Examples for Joliet

The former went forward to Ottawa, and the latter to Joliet.

He was a noble fellow, and doing much good there in the Joliet prison.

The Croak's in Joliet doing three years for working the sawdust.'

The most remarkable of all these French traders was Joliet (zho-le-).

I'm a thief, and I'm a skallerwag, and I served a term in Joliet prison.

Joliet persuaded the Ottawas to let this prisoner return with him.

The next day they took Billy aboard a train bound for Joliet.

But instead he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary at Joliet.

My dear Sir, — Yours of the 9th written at Joliet is just received.

But to return to the circumstances under which Joliet made the voyage.