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Synonyms for lakes

Grammar : Noun
Spell : leyk
Phonetic Transcription : leɪk

Top 10 synonyms for lakes
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Définition of lakes

Origin :
  • "body of water," early 12c., from Old French lack and directly from Latin lacus "pond, lake," also "basin, tank," related to lacuna "hole, pit," from PIE *laku- (cf. Greek lakkos "pit, tank, pond," Old Church Slavonic loky "pool, puddle, cistern," Old Irish loch "lake, pond"). The common notion is "basin." There was a Germanic form of the word, which yielded cognate Old Norse lögr "sea flood, water," Old English lacu "stream," lagu "sea flood, water," leccan "to moisten" (see leak). In Middle English, lake, as a descendant of the Old English word, also could mean "stream; river gully; ditch; marsh; grave; pit of hell," and this might have influenced the form of the borrowed word. The North American Great Lakes so called from 1660s.
  • noun inland body of water
Example sentences :
  • Then, as the horses and carts returned, we embarked and set our faces toward the Lakes.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • Near one of these lakes dwelt a widow, with only one son, named Gwyn.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • His enumeration of a comparison with other lakes is at once harmonious and poetic.
  • Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
  • We could count from one point nearly fifty of these lakes, large and small.
  • Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace
  • The men called it “the plain of a thousand lakes,” and this describes it well.
  • Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace
  • In the neighbourhood of the lakes abovementioned live the Chitimachas.
  • Extract from : « The History of Louisiana » by Le Page Du Pratz
  • They abound upon the shores of the sea and of lakes, but are rarely seen in rivers.
  • Extract from : « The History of Louisiana » by Le Page Du Pratz
  • I live North, among the rocks and mountains and lakes of Canada.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880 » by Various
  • Mazurian swamps and lakes did all that he had ever claimed they would do and more.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) » by Various
  • So we have nothing to fear from those seeds that fell in our oceans, lakes and rivers.
  • Extract from : « Spawn of the Comet » by Harold Thompson Rich
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