Great Salt Lake
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- proper noun
- /ɡreɪt sɔlt leɪk/
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Gran Lago Salado
- In Utah, a tremendous rise in the Great Salt Lake found lakeshore residents unprepared and led to the implementation of large-scale, short-term engineering projects.
- Great Salt Lake Shorelands
- Great Salt Lake dinner cruise
- Great Salt Lake dinner
Examples
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In 1975, the Utah legislature established the Division of the Great Salt Lake and the Great Salt Lake Board within the state's Department of Natural Resources.
Academic text (1991) -
I live about 150 miles away from Utah's Great Salt Lake.
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With no outlets to the sea, the Great Salt Lake is a terminal lake.
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In 1847, Mormon refugees settled in the northern Great Basin, near the Great Salt Lake.
Academic text (2000) -
Salt Lake City lies in a spectacular setting at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains near the shores of the Great Salt Lake.
Academic text (2005) -
When visiting the Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve, be sure to bring water, insect repellent, and wear appropriate clothing.
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The Great Salt Lake is famous for its incredibly high salinity and unique ecosystem.
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Many visitors enjoy kayaking on the serene waters of the Great Salt Lake in the summer.
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The Great Salt Lake provides a critical habitat for migratory birds in Utah.
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Morphology
The name is fully compositional: 'great' signals large size, 'salt' denotes salinity, and 'lake' denotes a body of water, so a learner who knows the constituent words can infer it refers to a large salty lake. This kind of descriptive place-name construction is common cross-linguistically and remains transparent even though it functions as a proper noun.
Etymology
Great Salt Lake comes from a very literal image: it is a 'very large' lake with very 'salty' water, so people called it the great salt lake. That's why the name simply tells you it is the big, salty lake in Utah today.