lake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lāk
ipa: /leɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: lakes
Etymology: Arose from a conflation of the form of inherited Middle English lake (“small stream of running water, pool, lake”) with Middle English lac (“lake”), from Old French lac (“lake”) or Latin lacus (“lake, basin, tank”), see lac. The former, lake (“stream, pool, lake”), is inherited from Old English lacu (“stream, pool, expanse of water, lake”), from Proto-West Germanic *laku, from Proto-Germanic *lakō (“stream, pool, water aggregation”), ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to leak, drain”). It is related to Dutch laak (“stream, drainage ditch, pond”), German Low German Lake, Laak (“drainage, marshland”), German Lache (“puddle”), Icelandic lækur (“stream”).
Despite their similarity in form and meaning, Old English lacu is not related to English lay (“lake”), Latin lacus (“hollow, lake, pond”), Scottish Gaelic loch (“lake”), Ancient Greek λάκκος (lákkos, “waterhole, tank, pond, pit”), all from Proto-Indo-European *lókus, *l̥kwés (“lake, pool”).
Senses: examples: text: Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: These included other Niphargus species from deep cave lakes and coastal anchihaline caves [23 ] and Gammarus and Echinogammarus amphipods that live only in permanently watered streams [21 ,24 ].
ref: 2015 July 31, “Morphologically Cryptic Amphipod Species Are “Ecological Clones” at Regional but Not at Local Scale: A Case Study of Four Niphargus Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
examples: text: a lake of wine
text: So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
ref: 1991, Robert DeNiro (actor), Backdraft
glosses: A large amount of liquid.
glosses: A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
glosses: A pit, or ditch.
Synonyms: word: lake
word: loch
Hypernyms: word: body of water
word: landform
Hyponyms: word: lakelet
word: tarn
Meronyms: word: water
Derived terms: word: Bala Lake
word: Balsam Lake
word: barrier lake
word: Bassenthwaite Lake
word: Big Ass Lake
word: Big Lake
word: Big Lakes County
word: bore lake
word: brine lake
word: Brome Lake
word: Canyon Lake
word: Chengcing Lake
word: Clam Lake
word: Clay Lake
word: Clear Lake
word: Cold Lake
word: crater lake
word: data lake
word: Dease Lake
word: Dease Lake Post
word: Detroit Lakes
word: Devils Lake
word: Diamond Lake
word: dry lake
word: East Lake
word: Eastlake
word: Elbow Lake
word: Emma Lake
word: ephemeral lake
word: finger lake
word: Fish Lake
word: fjord lake
word: glacial lake
word: glacial lake outburst flood
word: go jump in the lake
word: Goose Lake
word: Grand Lake
word: Great Bitter Lake
word: Great Lakes
word: Great Salt Lake
word: Great Slave Lake
word: Green Lake
word: Groom Lake
word: Hamburg lake
word: Hubbard Lake
word: interlake
word: intermittent lake
word: intralake
word: kettle lake
word: Knob Lake
word: lac lake
word: lacrimal lake
word: Lake Albert
word: Lake Andes
word: Lake and Peninsula Borough
word: Lake Asphaltites
word: Lake Baikal
word: lake ball
word: lakebed
word: Lake Borgne
word: Lake Buena Vista
word: Lake Butler
word: Lake Chad
word: Lake Champlain
word: Lake City
word: Lake Country
word: Lake County
word: Lake District
word: lake dwelling
word: lake-effect
word: lake effect
word: Lake Erie
word: lakefill
word: lake fly
word: lakefront
word: lakeful
word: Lake Geneva
word: Lake Granby
word: lakehead
word: lakehouse
word: Lake House
word: Lake Huron
word: lake itch
word: Lake Jessie
word: Lake Kyoga
word: Lake Kioga
word: lakeland
word: lake lawyer
word: lakeless
word: lakelet
word: lakelike
word: lakelore
word: Lake Louise
word: Lake Lugano
word: Lake Macquarie
word: Lake Malawi
word: Lake Michigan
word: Lake Nasser
word: lakeness
word: Lake Neuchâtel
word: Lake of Bays
word: lake of fire
word: Lake of the Woods
word: lake of Wada
word: Lake Ontario
word: lake pigment
word: Lake Pleasant
word: lakeport
word: Lake Providence
word: lake quillwort
word: Laker
word: lake retention time
word: Lakes
word: Lake Saint Francis
word: Lake St. Francis
word: lakescape
word: lakeshore
word: lake shore disease
word: lakeside
word: Lakeside
word: Lake Station
word: Lake St. Clair
word: lake stratification
taxonomic: Acipenser fulvescens
word: lake sturgeon
word: Lake Superior
word: Lake Tai
word: Lake Tanganyika
word: Lake Thun
word: Laketown
word: lake trout
word: Lake Victoria
word: lakeview
word: Lake Villa
word: Lake Village
word: lake village
word: Lake Wakatipu
word: lakeward
word: lakewards
word: lakewater
word: lakeweed
word: lakewide
word: Lake Winnipeg
word: Lake Wobegon
word: lakish
word: Lakism
word: Lakist
word: laky
word: lava lake
word: Llanquihue Lake
word: Lower Lake
word: Lynn Lake
word: Maroon Lake
word: maroon lake
word: Mayhew Lake
word: Meeting Lake
word: megalake
word: meromictic lake
word: Moses Lake
word: Mountain Lakes
word: Muskoka Lakes
word: Nahuel Huapi Lake
word: Niagara-on-the-Lake
word: nonlake
word: Otsego Lake
word: oxbow lake
word: palaeolake
word: paleolake
word: Palmer Lake
word: paternoster lake
word: Peninsula Lake
word: Pine Lake
word: playa lake
word: prairie lake
word: Qinghai Lake
word: quake lake
word: Rainy Lake
word: Red Lake County
word: Red Lake Falls
word: Reindeer Lake
word: Rideau Lakes
word: rose lake
word: Rotorua Lakes
word: Round Lake Beach
word: Saint Mary Lake
word: Salem Lakes
word: salt lake
word: Salt Lake City
word: Salt Lake County
word: seasonal lake
word: Shell Lake
word: Silver Lake
word: Slender West Lake
word: Smoky Lake
word: Smoky Lake County
word: soda lake
word: Southlake
word: South Lakeland
word: Spirit Lake
word: splake
word: Split Lake
word: Spring Lake
word: Storm Lake
word: subglacial lake
word: Timber Lake
word: Todos los Santos Lake
word: Tramping Lake
word: Trent Lakes
word: trough lake
word: Trout Lake
word: Turquoise Lake
word: Twin Lakes
word: underwater lake
word: Waskesiu Lake
word: Westlake
word: West Lake
word: wine lake
word: Woodcliff Lake
Related terms: word: lacustrine
word: billabong
word: lagoon
word: pond
word: talav
word: tarn
word: lough
word: plash
word: pool
word: millpond
word: polynya
word: puddle
word: dam
word: reservoir
word: fish pond
word: well
word: inlet
word: watercourse
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