lake
A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquidA large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
» Some boats are on the lake.
Декілька човнів плавають на озері. — ascolto
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9 sensesA large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
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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.
- 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 sentencesSome boats are on the lake.
Декілька човнів плавають на озері. — ascolto
He ran down to the lake.
Він побіг до озера. — deniko
deEr lief hinunter an den See. — wolfgangth
She took him to the lake.
Вона взяла його з собою до озера. — deniko
ruОна отвела его к озеру. — marafon
deSie hat ihn an den See mitgenommen. — Esperantostern
We've walked all around the lake.
Ми обійшли навколо озера. — deniko
ruМы обошли вокруг озера. — sharptoothed
deWir wanderten eine volle Runde um den See. — al_ex_an_der
The water in the lake is cool.
Вода в озері прохолодна. — deniko
ruВода в озере прохладная. — odexed
deDas Wasser im See ist kühl. — landano
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 2
By meaning 2
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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Forms
plural: lakesSynonyms
4 synonymsWord family
96 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A2Weather and nature — Because the lesson uses it
Collocations
12 patterns- to the lake
- near the lake
- in this lake
- the lake is
- around the lake
- near a lake
- in the lake
- of the lake
- across the lake
- lake is deepest
- on the lake
- into the lake
See also
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