lake
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- noun
- /leɪk/
- We spent the afternoon by the lake, enjoying the peaceful scenery and watching the ducks swim.
- lake water
- shore of the lake
- fish in a lake
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Watch on YouTubeMissus Piper caught the largest bass ever recorded in the lake there.
- Missus Piper caught the largest bass ever recorded in the lake there.
- I was on the craggy side of the lake and this dude looked dead.
- Just pull this straight from the lake and I'm eating it.
- So you get that nice, nice lake lot and you get that boat.
- Yeah, But at the lake house, it's all septic.
- I think like places like the lake, the straight, straight.
- I'll drop them off at the lake and this thing pees on me.
Examples
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Moreover, its many rivers and lakes have proven amenable to the large-scale generation of hydroelectric power.
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You know, I took some biscuit out there to the lake to feed to some ducks.
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So you get that nice, nice lake lot and you get that boat.
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The lake will be there next week.
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One went down to the lake and took a look in the water.
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We should think about buying something up here, like some log cabin in the woods near a lake.
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Listen, there's a small lake on the side of that cliff there.
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The Great Salt Lake, unlike most lakes, doesn't have an outflow.
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It's tourism, people come here, they want to fish and they want to hunt, they want to enjoy the mountains and the trees and the lakes and they can't get there by car.
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Large lakes are dominated by lake trout or, in the absence of trout, by arctic char.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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A large area of water like a lake, river, or ocean
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A lake or long narrow water area like an inlet
Idioms
Compounds
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The capital of Utah near the Great Salt Lake and home to the main offices of the Mormon Church
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A large clear lake with fresh water on the border of Nevada and California popular for skiing and summer holidays
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The largest freshwater lake in the world on the border of the United States and Canada
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A very large manmade lake on the Nevada and Arizona border formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River
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A beautiful area in northwest England with lakes, mountains, and small villages that visitors like
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A large lake between southwestern Switzerland and France that the Rhone River crosses
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A large freshwater lake between Michigan and Ontario that is one of the Great Lakes
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The largest lake in Africa between Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania that feeds the Nile
- US
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A large freshwater fish like a salmon found in cold northern lakes and caught for food and sport
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A large lake between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo with beautiful shores and underwater gas
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A lake between Ontario, Canada and Michigan, USA that connects Lake Huron and Lake Erie
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A large shallow lake on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa
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A large lake on the border of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria where the Rhine flows
- Literature
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A group of English poets who lived in the Lake District and wrote about its landscape
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A large lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada drained by the Mackenzie River
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A lake between Ontario, Canada, and Michigan, USA that connects Lake Huron and Lake Erie
A national park in Oregon with the deepest lake in the United States formed in a volcano crater
- Offensive
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A large national park in Alaska with mountains, lakes, and old Native sites
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A large lake in southeastern Africa that is between Malawi, Tanzania and Mozambique
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A large freshwater lake in southern Manitoba, Canada with many fishing communities
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A large lake in northern Idaho known for its beauty and for boating and fishing
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A large lake between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan now much smaller because people took water from rivers
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A large national park in Alaska with wild nature and old sites of Native people
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A large lake in northwest Russia near the border with Finland, the second largest in Europe
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The largest freshwater lake in China in Jiangxi province, connected to the Yangtze River
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A fight in central Italy in 217 BC where Hannibal defeats Roman forces led by Flaminius
A battle in 217 BC in Italy during the Second Punic War where Hannibal ambushed and defeated a Roman army
A 217 BC ambush near Lake Trasimene where Hannibal defeats a Roman army
A shallow lake on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in East Africa
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Etymology
Lake comes from the old Latin word lacus, which meant 'pond' or 'basin'. So a lake is a large area of water that sits inside the land.