lake dwelling
- noun
- /leɪk ˈdwɛlɪŋ/
:
vivienda lacustre
- The museum has a model of a lake dwelling that illustrates how prehistoric people lived on stilts above the water.
Examples
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The road skirts the town and intersects lagoons, where Malay houses of coconut thatch stand upon piles like ancient lake dwellings.
Blog text (22) -
Archaeologists discovered ancient tools in a Swiss lake dwelling that dates back over 4,000 years.
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There in the library, on that complicated and negative stage, at the foot of volumes of weighty literature, the millenary episode began, just like life in the lake dwellings.
Fiction book (1992) -
Visiting a lake dwelling site gives insight into the lives of early humans who built homes on stilts for protection from flooding.
Synonyms
A house built on wooden or stone posts that stands above water
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: combining 'lake' (a body of water) with 'dwelling' (a place where people live) yields a dwelling located at or on a lake. Although archaeological descriptions add specifics (e.g. built on piles), the core locational meaning is immediately inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The noun lake dwelling paints a clear picture: a dwelling, a house, standing on piles in a lake or at its edge. So it means 'a house or settlement built on piles or platforms in or near a lake'.
