What does Lough mean?
Definitions for Lough
lɒk, lɒxlough
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Princeton's WordNet
loughnoun
a long narrow (nearly landlocked) cove in Ireland
loughnoun
Irish word for a lake
Wiktionary
loughnoun
A lake or long, narrow inlet, especially in Ireland
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Loughnoun
A lake; a large inland standing water.
Etymology: loch, Irish, a lake.
A people near the northern pole that won,
Whom Ireland sent from loughes and forests hore,
Divided far by sea from Europe’s shore. Edward Fairfax.Lough Ness never freezes. Phil. Trans.
Wikipedia
lough
Loch () is the Scottish Gaelic, Scots and Irish word for a lake or sea inlet. It is cognate with the Manx lough, Cornish logh, and one of the Welsh words for lake, llwch. In English English and Hiberno-English, the anglicised spelling lough is commonly found in place names; in Lowland Scots and Scottish English, the spelling "loch" is always used. Many loughs are connected to stories of lake-bursts, signifying their mythical origin. Sea-inlet lochs are often called sea lochs or sea loughs. Some such bodies of water could also be called firths, fjords, estuaries, straits or bays.
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lough
A lough is a term used in Ireland and Scotland to refer to a lake or a sea inlet. It is derived from the Irish and Scottish Gaelic words "loch," which means "lake."
Webster Dictionary
Loughnoun
a loch or lake; -- so spelt in Ireland
Lough
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Etymology: [See 1st Loch.]
Wikidata
Lough
A lough is a body of water and is either: ⁕A lake ⁕A sea lough, which may be a fjord, estuary, bay, or sea inlet. It can also be used as a surname, with various pronunciations: law, loch, low, lowe, loth, loff, lohguh. Lough is a Hiberno-English form of the Old Irish word loch, which means lake, or bay. The form loch is also used in Irish English, Lough is also used for some small bodies of water in the far north of England. Except when individually named, loughs are often referred to as lakes, fjords, estuaries, and sea inlets. Thus lake district and estuary bed may be used in preference to lough district and lough bed.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Lough
loh, n. the Irish form of loch.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
lough
See LOCH.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
LOUGH
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Lough is ranked #8986 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Lough surname appeared 3,641 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Lough.
94.5% or 3,443 total occurrences were White.
2.1% or 78 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.5% or 55 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.8% or 31 total occurrences were Asian.
0.5% or 21 total occurrences were Black.
0.3% or 13 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
Anagrams for Lough »
ghoul
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Lough in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Lough in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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