lake

CEFRA2

/leɪk/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A large area of water surrounded by land.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A large amount of liquid.

Examples

  • At the foot of the hill is a beautiful lake.

  • It was a close call when the little girl almost drowned in the lake.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4
Synonyms
3

Also pronounced

  • /læɪk/
  • /lek/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.

  2. A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.

  3. A pit, or ditch.

More examples

In context

  • The road went in a huge loop around the lake.

  • So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?

  • The name of a lake prepared by extending the aluminum salt prepared from FD&C Blue No. 1 upon the substratum would be FD&C Blue No. 1--Aluminum Lake.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

Arose from a conflation of * Middle English lake (“small stream of running water, pool, lake”), from Old English lacu (“stream, pool, pond, lake”), from Proto-West Germanic *laku, from Proto-Germanic *lakō (“stream, pool, body of water", originally "a place where water runs off and collects”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to leak, drain”); with * Middle English lac (“lake”), from Old French lac (“lake, ditch, pit”), a borrowed term, likely from Latin lacus (“lake, tub, vat”) (see Old French lac for more). The first element is related to Dutch laak (“stream, drainage ditch, pond”), German Low German Lake, Laak (“drainage, marshland”), German Lache (“puddle, pool”), Norwegian l...