K'un-ming Lake

Proper noun

Kunming Lake

1. A lake in Beijing, China, on the grounds of the Summer Palace.
   • At Peking's Kunming Lake, processions of people swam between lines of crowded, flag‐bedecked boats accompanied by martial music on loudspeakers.1974 July 17 [1974 July 16], “Chinese Take to Water To Mark Mao's Swim”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2023, page 13
2. Synonym of Lake Dian.
   • The Kunming plateau, 1,896 meters above the sea-level, contains lowlands of considerable size and is fairly well irrigated, especially the shore lands of Kunming Lake. For countless decades this region has been devoted to agriculture, and to this day it is considered generally typical of the...1946, Ta Chen, “The Beginnings of Modern Demography”, in Population in Modern China, Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 12, column 1

   Synonyms:

   Lake Dian