lake

UK/leɪk/US/leɪk/

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Other forms: lakes

A lake is a large body of still fresh water with land all round it. Big enough to row across, too big to throw a stone over.

The difference from a pond is size and nothing else, and nobody agrees exactly where the line falls. Being fresh is what separates a lake from a sea, and being still is what separates it from a river. English keeps local words for the same thing — a loch in Scotland, a lough in Ireland, a mere in parts of England — and the Lake District is named simply for having a great many of them.

Definitions of lake

1nounlakeA large area of still fresh water surrounded by land.A2
“They swam in the lake every morning.”

lake is a body of water.

Where it comes from

Arose from a conflation of

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Nature & Weather, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 18 of A Man Called Ove.

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lake in the wild

The Great Lakes Waterway enables modern travel and shipping by water among the lakes.
Great Lakes
The lakes are also connected to the Mississippi River basin through the Illinois Waterway.
Great Lakes
Lake Erie ( EER-ee) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally.
Lake Erie
The largest city on the lake is Cleveland, anchoring the third largest U.S. metro area in the Great Lakes region, after Greater Chicago and Metro Detroit.
Lake Erie
To the north, the lake is flanked by long bays, including Green Bay in the northwest, and Grand Traverse and Little Traverse bays in the northeast.
Lake Michigan

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