A2noun · frequent

lake

lake · lakes

озеро

озеро, лак

See, Färberlack

A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquidA large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.

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/leɪk/

» Some boats are on the lake.

Декілька човнів плавають на озері.

Meaning

9 senses

A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
See
о́зероózero
о́зероózero
A large amount of liquid.
a lake of wine
(dialectal)A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
(dialectal)Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
(countable, uncountable)In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermilion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
Färberlack
лакlak
(countable, uncountable)In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.
The name of a lake prepared by extending the aluminum salt prepared from FD&C Blue No. 1 upon the substratum would be FD&C Blue No. 1--Aluminum Lake.
(obsolete)A pit, or ditch.
(obsolete)An offering, sacrifice, gift.
(obsolete)A kind of fine, white linen.

More definitions

a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments
a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal

Examples

1108 sentences

Some boats are on the lake.
Декілька човнів плавають на озері.
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He ran down to the lake.
Він побіг до озера.
deEr lief hinunter an den See.
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She took him to the lake.
Вона взяла його з собою до озера.
ruОна отвела его к озеру.
deSie hat ihn an den See mitgenommen.
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We've walked all around the lake.
Ми обійшли навколо озера.
ruМы обошли вокруг озера.
deWir wanderten eine volle Runde um den See.
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The water in the lake is cool.
Вода в озері прохолодна.
ruВода в озере прохладная.
deDas Wasser im See ist kühl.
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Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

body of water:

Русский

By meaning 2

body of water:

a kind of coloring agent:

Deutsch

By meaning 2

body of water:

a kind of coloring agent:

Origin

Arose from a conflation of From Northern Middle English lake, lak, lac (also laik, layke;

Arose from a conflation of

From Northern Middle English lake, lak, lac (also laik, layke; Southern loke), from Old English lāc (“play, sport, strife, battle, sacrifice, offering, gift, present, booty, message”), from Proto-West Germanic *laik, from Proto-Germanic *laikaz (“game, dance, hymn, sport”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“to bounce, shake, tremble”). Cognate with Old High German leih (“song, melody, music”), Old Norse leikr (whence Danish leg (“game”), Swedish leka (“to play”)), and Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍃 (laiks, “dance”). Doublet of lek.

From Middle English lake, from Old English *lacen or Middle Dutch laken; both from Proto-Germanic *lakaną (“linen; cloth; sheet”). Cognate with Dutch lake (“linen”), Dutch laken (“linen; bedsheet”), German Laken, Danish lagan, Swedish lakan, Icelandic lak, lakan.

From French laque (“lacquer”), from Persian لاک (lâk), from Hindi लाख (lākh), from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā). Doublet of lac and lacquer.

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