Definitions for lagoon

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lagoon la·goon

Spelling: [luh-goon]

IPA: /ləˈgun/

Lagoon is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in lagoon (aglnoo).

Definitions for lagoon

noun

1. an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes. Compare laguna.
2. Also, lagune. any small, pondlike body of water, especially one connected with a larger body of water.
3. an artificial pool for storage and treatment of polluted or excessively hot sewage, industrial waste, etc.

Origin of lagoon

1605-15; earlier laguna (singular), lagune (plural) Italian Latin lacūna (singular), lacūnae (plural) ditch, pool, akin to lacus basin, lake¹; see

Examples for lagoon

That lagoon presented an excellent place for a cattle-station.

No one knows exactly why 29-year-old Iranian costume design student Mahtab Savoji turned up dead in the Venice lagoon last week.

Then I knew why Opata smelled of mischief when he had caught snakes in the lagoon.

Jack twitched the auger from one of the seamen and flung it into the lagoon.

The shallow water of the lagoon ran into gold-tipped ripples.

In the center of this lagoon stands commonly a rocky island.

The water within the lagoon was as calm as the surface of a mill-pond.

A one-legged torso wearing only a stiletto-heeled boot was found floating in a Venice lagoon.

I wind up driving into a lagoon of some kind and presumably drowning.

And they wait for us outside the bottle-neck of this lagoon.