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Synonyms for lagoons

Grammar : Noun
Spell : luh-goon
Phonetic Transcription : ləˈgun


Définition of lagoons

Origin :
  • 1670s, lagune, earlier laguna (1610s), from French lagune or directly from Italian laguna "pond, lake," from Latin lacuna "pond, hole," from lacus "pond" (see lake (n.1)). Originally in reference to the region of Venice; applied 1769 (by Capt. Cook) to the lake-like stretch of water enclosed in a South Seas atoll. Also cf. -oon.
  • noun shallow body of water
Example sentences :
  • Attalano rowed across the river into the outlet of one of the lagoons.
  • Extract from : « Tales of Fishes » by Zane Grey
  • The whole region was swamps and lagoons, about as uninteresting as we could expect to find.
  • Extract from : « Up the River » by Oliver Optic
  • These enter the lagoons from the ocean in pursuit of smaller fish.
  • Extract from : « Rdan The Devil And Other Stories » by Louis Becke
  • But the vast majority were forced to visit the lagoons frequently or perish.
  • Extract from : « The Black Phantom » by Leo Edward Miller
  • A mate and I went out to get some ducks or geese, which swarmed on the lagoons.
  • Extract from : « Reminiscences of Queensland » by William Henry Corfield
  • The founders of Venice did no more in the lagoons of the Adriatic.
  • Extract from : « East of Suez » by Frederic Courtland Penfield
  • Crocodiles and kaymans never haunt the open coast, but keep in creeks and lagoons, and there are no ravenous beasts on the island.
  • Extract from : « Letters on the Nicobar islands, their natural productions, and the manners, customs, and superstitions of the natives » by John Gottfried Haensel
  • It seems as if the lagoons belonged to them, this evening, eh, Polly?
  • Extract from : « A Venetian June » by Anna Fuller
  • There is no piece of water more extraordinary than the lagoons of Venice.
  • Extract from : « Venice » by Dorothy Menpes
  • Neither Byzantium nor Ravenna, and not Padua, could claim the lagoons.
  • Extract from : « Venice » by Dorothy Menpes

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