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Great Slave Lake

Great Slave Lake proper noun: a lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada; one of the largest lakes in the world and the deepest lake in North America.

Proper noun

Great Slave Lake

  1. A lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada; one of the largest lakes in the world and the deepest lake in North America.

Origin of Great Slave Lake

From being the larger of the two former Slave Lakes, from being named after the Slavey people, from French Esclave, from esclave (“slave”), from Cree term for slaves, from being a Cree exonym for the Slavey people.

Words formed from Great Slave Lake

  • Great Slave
  • Great Slave East

Questions about Great Slave Lake

What does Great Slave Lake mean?
Great Slave Lake means a lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada; one of the largest lakes in the world and the deepest lake in North America.
What part of speech is Great Slave Lake?
Great Slave Lake is a proper noun.

Words near Great Slave Lake in the dictionary

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  2. great skuas
  3. Great Sky River
  4. great slaty woodpecker
  5. great slaty woodpeckers
  6. Great Slave Lake
  7. Great Smoky Mountains
  8. great snipe
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  10. Great Snoring
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