Great Salt Lake

Proper noun

the Great Salt Lake

1. A large saltwater lake in Utah, United States.
   • These plateaus are drained by the Colorado River and its tributaries ; the eastern and southern margin by the Rio Grande and its tributaries, and the western by streams that flow into the Great Basin and are lost in the Great Salt Lake and other bodies of water that have no drainage to the sea.1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961...