Synonyms for lake
leɪklake

Princeton's WordNet

1. lakenoun

   a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land

2. lakenoun

   a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal

3. lakenoun

   any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments

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1. • Body Of Water
   • Pigment

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1. lakenoun

   Synonyms:
   pond, loch, mere, pool, LAGOON

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1. lakenoun

   Synonyms:
   pond, lagoon

   Associated words:
   lacustrine, lacustral

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1. List of paraphrases for "lake":

   lac, lakes, lacustrine, lago, iake, wu, lk, beheira, lacs, loch, lakeshore

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1. List of known nicknames for "Lake":

   Lake

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How to use lake in a sentence?

1. Lucinda Mercer:

   Right now my street looks more like a lake.

2. Benjamin Disraeli:

   Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

3. Sam Hook:

   If we looked at these warming rates, a project of what would happen in the next century then what we would see is that algal blooms would go up by about 20 percent, this is the green algae that you see in the lakes, often times in the summer and some of that green algae that is added, some of it contains harmful toxins and so what it can do is, it puts restrictions on people going out on the water or using the water for drinking purposes and things like that. So, there are real consequences to the actual lake ecosystem.

4. John Kihia:

   Naivasha is a big center because it's a freshwater lake and it is not very far from Nairobi, which makes transport easy, people have been growing flowers there for a long time so there is a skilled labor force in place.

5. Colby Pellegrino:

   But( the pumping station) coming online is also a symbol of how serious the situation is on Colorado River right now, reservoir levels are lower than they've ever been in both Lake Powell and Lake Mead since the time that they filled.