Definitions of Lagoon [əˈgun]

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Definition of 'Lagoon'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) lagoon
an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes.

2. lagoon
an artificial pool for storage and treatment of polluted or excessively hot waste.

Etymology: (1605–15; earlier laguna (sing.), lagune (pl.) < It < L lacūna pit )

Definition of 'Lagoon'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) lagoon, laguna, lagune
a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral

Definition of 'Lagoon'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Lagoon
a shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice

2. (noun) Lagoon
a lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll

Translation of 'Lagoon'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a shallow stretch of water separated from the sea by sandbanks, coral reefs etc.
Afrikaans: strandmeer	Arabic: بُحَيْرَه شاطئيَّه	Bulgarian: лагуна
Brazilian: lagoa	Czech: laguna	German: die Lagune
Danish: lagune	Greek: λιμνοθάλασσα	Spanish: laguna
Estonian: laguun	Farsi: مرداب	Finnish: laguuni
French: lagune	Hebrew: לָגוּנָה	Hindi: लैगून, समुद्री झील
Croatian: uvala, laguna	Hungarian: lagúna	Indonesian: laguna
Icelandic: lón	Italian: laguna	Japanese: 潟
Korean: 석호(潟湖)	Lithuanian: lagūna, negili lanka	Latvian: lagūna
Malay: lagun	Dutch: lagune	Norwegian: lagune
Polish: laguna	Persian: مرداب	Pashto: د ناپاكو اوبه ډنډ
Portuguese: lagoa	Romanian: lagună	Russian: лагуна
Slovak: lagúna	Slovenian: laguna	Serbian: laguna
Swedish: lagun	Thai: ทะเลสาบ	Turkish: kıyı gölü, deniz kulağı
Taiwanese: 瀉湖, 礁湖	Ukrainian: лагуна	Urdu: مرجانی قطعہ پر گھرا ہوا پ
Vietnamese: đầm phá	Chinese: 泻湖，礁湖
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