Definitions for Lakeleɪk
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
lakeleɪk(n.)
a body of fresh or salt water of considerable size, surrounded by land.
Category: Geography (terms)
any similar body or pool of other liquid, as oil.
Origin of lake:
bef. 1000; ME lak(e),lac(e) < OF lac < L lacus
lakeleɪk(n.)
any of various pigments prepared from animal, vegetable, or coal-tar coloring matters by chemical or other union with metallic compounds.
Category: Fine Arts
a red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal by combination with a metallic compound.
Category: Fine Arts
Origin of lake:
1610–20; var. of lac1
Lakeleɪk(n.)
Simon, 1866–1945, U.S. engineer and naval architect.
Category: Biography
Princeton's WordNet
lake(noun)
a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
lake(noun)
a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal
lake(noun)
any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
lake(noun)ɪk
an area of water surrounded on all sides by land
They went swimming in the lake.; Lake Ontario
Webster Dictionary
Lake(noun)
a pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc
Lake(noun)
a kind of fine white linen, formerly in use
Lake(verb)
to play; to sport
Lake(noun)
a large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area
Translations for Lake
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
lake(noun)
a large area of water surrounded by land
They go swimming in / sailing on the lake; Lake Michigan.
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