lake
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lake1
▶noun a large area of water surrounded by land. ■(the Lakes) another name for the Lake District.
– derivatives
lakelet noun.
lakelet noun.
– origin OE, from OFr. lac, from L. lacus ‘pool, lake’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lake2
▶noun
- 1 an insoluble pigment made by combining a soluble organic dye and an insoluble mordant.
- 2 a purplish-red pigment of this kind, originally one made with lac.
'lake' also found in these Oxford entries:
Algonquin
- Athabaskan
- Aymara
- bank
- bayou
- beach
- bed
- benthos
- boathouse
- catchment area
- Chadic
- crannog
- crystal
- empty
- epilimnion
- fountain
- gyttja
- head
- high-water mark
- Huron
- hypolimnion
- icefish
- infauna
- influent
- influx
- inlet
- kettle hole
- L
- lacustrine
- lagoon
- Lake District
- lake dwelling
- Lakeland terrier
- lakeside
- lake trout
- lark
- limnology
- linn
- littoral
- loch
- mere
- natron
- Nyanja
- Ojibwa
- ooze
- outfall
- overturn
- oxbow lake
