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Lake Malawi

Lake Malawi proper noun: a major lake of Africa with a shoreline in Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.

Proper noun

Lake Malawi

  1. A major lake of Africa with a shoreline in Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.

Origin of Lake Malawi

Named after the country of Malawi in association with its former name Nyasaland which means land of the lake.

Questions about Lake Malawi

What does Lake Malawi mean?
Lake Malawi means a major lake of Africa with a shoreline in Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.
What part of speech is Lake Malawi?
Lake Malawi is a proper noun.

Words near Lake Malawi in the dictionary

  1. Lake Louise
  2. Lake Lucerne
  3. Lake Lugano
  4. Lake Macquarie
  5. Lake Malar
  6. Lake Malawi
  7. Lake Margaret
  8. Lake Marmal
  9. Lake Mathews
  10. Lake Meran
  11. Lake Michigan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lake Malawi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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