Definitions for Lake

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Lake lake

Spelling: [leyk]

IPA: /leɪk/

Lake is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in Lake (aekl).

Definitions for Lake

noun

1. a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land.
2. any similar body or pool of other liquid, as oil.
3. any of various pigments prepared from animal, vegetable, or coal-tar coloring matters by chemical or other union with metallic compounds.
4. a red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal by combination with a metallic compound.
5. Simon, 1866–1945, U.S. engineer and naval architect.

Idioms

1. (go) jump in the lake, (used as an exclamation of dismissal or impatience.)

Origin of Lake

before 1000; Middle English lak(e), lac(e), apparently a conflation of Old French lac, its source, Latin lacus (compare Greek lákkos, Old Irish loch, Old English, Old Saxon lagu sea, water) a

Examples for Lake

Williams said he went to the lake to take a stroll “because of his heart.”

Sweet Prince, tell me again of thy palace by the lake of Como.

I am reminded of the story of Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent, VT) walking along the shores of lake Champlain.

After following lake Barlee for nine miles, it turned to the southward.

The result was that many relics of the lake Dwellers were found.

The “waters of lake Minnetonka” may have been purifying, but they were also freezing.

People are extremely anxious about the next generation,” lake said, “and it unites America.

This video remedies that injustice, showcasing an owl doing a butterfly stroke in lake Michigan.

Went over to the lake with all the horses, and brought the loads to the camp.

lake Torrens was reached, and then the difficulties of the expedition began.