lagoon
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3.9
- noun
- /ləˈɡun/
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laguna
- The hotel has a beautiful lagoon where guests can go kayaking and enjoy the scenery.
- a coastal lagoon
- a shallow lagoon
- waters of a lagoon
It's reflection, turning the leaden surface of the lagoon into a brilliant copper shield.
- It's reflection, turning the leaden surface of the lagoon into a brilliant copper shield.
- So let's not waste any more time and get out there to the lagoons.
- So, you know, don't, you know, put the beads on the string or, you know, don't fish in the sacred lagoon or whatever.
- But not only that, they, there's no sewage treatment and they spray the the fields with the poop and they put it in lagoons.
- Wrapping, wrapping while we're swimming in the lagoon with fucking trash and ain't all the Creek run to the sewer.
Examples
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They have this lagoon there with dolphins and people get to swim with them.
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"I watched them pull a child out of the lagoon last winter," I say.
Fiction book (1992) -
So we're about to get started right here, and then we have an hour ride out to the lagoon here and back.
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Anybody want to get a drink by the lagoon?
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Well, how are you planning to get across the lagoon in that tub, anyway?
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September 13, I took my packed bags down to the lagoon to wait for the arrival.
Academic text (2011) -
It's a five thousand mile journey... that takes them down the coast of North America... to a lagoon in Baja, Mexico, where they breed.
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"You have fished everywhere in the lagoon," I said, "but not in the cave."
Fiction book (1998) -
Ravenna is protected by a lagoon, marshes and Shoals along the coast.
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They followed them upriver, deep into the jungle, to a lagoon that thundered with the sound of flapping fish.
Synonyms
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7.2
A shallow area of sea water separated from the ocean by sand or coral
Compounds
- Specialized
A large shallow pond that treats sewage using sunlight and bacteria and algae
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word lagoon comes from the Italian and Spanish word laguna, which meant 'lake' or 'pond' and comes from Latin lacus 'lake'. So a lagoon is like a small 'lake' by the sea, separated from the open water by sand or a reef.