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GeezerVison is showing en.wiktionary.org — Thesaurus:lake - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Noun

Sense: large, landlocked, naturally occurring stretch of water

Synonyms
  • lake
  • loch
Hyponyms
  • lakelet
  • tarn
Hypernyms
  • body of water    [⇒ thesaurus]
  • landform    [⇒ thesaurus]
Meronyms
  • water    [⇒ thesaurus]
Various

Standing inland bodies of water but not lakes

  • lough
  • plash
  • pond
  • pool
  • billabong
  • millpond
  • polynya
  • puddle

Artificial lakes and pools

  • dam
  • reservoir
  • fish pond
  • well
Instances

10 largest lakes

  • Caspian Sea
  • Superior
  • Victoria
  • Huron
  • Michigan
  • Tanganyika
  • Baikal
  • Great Bear Lake
  • Malawi
  • Great Slave Lake

See also

  • Thesaurus:inlet
  • Thesaurus:watercourse
  • Category:en:Lakes

Further reading

  • “343. lake” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
  • “lake” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
  • "lake" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
  • Lake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • List of lakes by area on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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