Definition of lake Lake
/lejˈk/ - [leyk] - lake
We found 23 definitions of lake from 8 different sources.
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What does lake mean?
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NounPlural: lakes |
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| lake - a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land | ||
| body of water, water the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean); "they invaded our territorial waters"; "they were sitting by the water's edge" | ||
| artificial lake, man-made lake, reservoir tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil) | ||
| bayou a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana) | ||
| floor the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure); "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors"; "we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent" | ||
| inlet, recess an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) | ||
| lagoon, laguna, lagune a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral | ||
| loch Scottish word for a lake | ||
| lough Irish word for a lake | ||
| oxbow lake a crescent-shaped lake (often temporary) that is formed when a meander of a river is cut off from the main channel | ||
| pond, pool a small lake; "the pond was too small for sailing" | ||
| tarn a mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers) | ||
| lake - any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments | ||
| lake - a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal | ||
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Wiktionary 
- lake (Noun)
A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain. - lake (Noun)
A large, landlocked, naturally-occurring stretch of water. - lake (Noun)
A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake. - lake (Noun)
An offering, sacrifice, gift. - lake (Noun)
Play; sport; game; fun; glee. - lake (Noun)
Fine linen. - lake (Noun)
In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant cochineal or madder, for example and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant. - lake (Verb)
To present an offering. - lake (Verb)
To leap, jump, exert oneself, play. - lake (Verb)
To make lake-red.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- lake (n.)
A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc. - lake (n.)
A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use. - lake (v. i.)
To play; to sport. - lake (n.)
A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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lake
An enclosed body of water, usually but not necessarily fresh water, from which the sea is excluded.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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lake
lāk, n. a pigment or colour formed by precipitating animal or vegetable colouring matters from their solutions, chiefly with alumina or oxide of tin. [Fr. laque. See Lac (2).] -
lake
lāk, n. a large body of water within land.—ns. Lake′-bā′sin, the whole area drained by a lake; Lake′-law′yer (U.S.), the bowfin: burbot; Lake′let, a little lake; Lā′ker, Lā′kist, one of the Lake school of poetry.—adj. Lā′ky, pertaining to a lake or lakes.—Lake District, the name applied to the picturesque and mountainous region within the counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, and a small portion of Lancashire, containing as many as sixteen lakes or meres; Lake dwellings, settlements in prehistoric times, built on piles driven into a lake; Lake school of poetry, a name applied to the group of illustrious poets who made the Lake District—Wordsworthshire—their home about the beginning of the 19th century. [A.S. lac—L. lacus.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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lake
A large inland expanse of water, with or without communication with the sea. A lake, strictly considered, has no visible affluent or effluent; but many of the loughs of Ireland, and lochs of Scotland, partake of the nature of havens or gulfs. Moreover, some lakes have affluents without outlets, and others have an outlet without any visible affluent; therein differing from lagoons and ponds. The water of lakes entirely encompassed by land is sometimes salt; that communicating with the sea by means of rivers is fresh.
Wikipedia 
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A lake (from Latin "lacus") is a large body of water (larger and deeper than a pond) within a body of land. Because a lake is not connected to any ocean, it is not a sea. Some lakes are very big and people in the past sometimes called them seas. Lakes do not flow, like rivers, but it is common that rivers flow into or out of them.
Most lakes on the surface of the Earth are fresh water and most are in the Northern Hemisphere. More than 60% of the lakes of the world are in Canada. Finland is known as "The Land of the Thousand Lakes" (there are 187,888 lakes in Finland, of which 60,000 are large).
Many lakes are man-made and are built to produce electricity, for recreation, to use the water in the industry, farming, or in houses.
If there are not rivers flowing out of the lake, or they are few and small, the lake loses water only by evaporation or because the water flows through the soil pores. Where the water evaporates rapidly and the soil around the lake has a high salt level, as in very dry places, the water of the lake has a high concentration of salt and the lake is called a salt lake. Examples of salt lakes are the Great Salt Lake, the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea, and the Dead Sea.
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🔤- lake, noun, singular of lakes.
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