lakelet
lakelet noun: a small lake.
Noun
lakelet (plural lakelets)
- A small lake.
- Of great Scenes, why speak? Three summer days, I lingered reflecting, and even composing (dichtete), by the Pine-chasms of Vaucluse; and in that clear Lakelet moistened my bread.1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Centre of Indifference”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 122
- There is a dividing ridge in the great northern wilderness of America, whereon lies a lakelet of not more than twenty yards in diameter.1888, R[obert] M[ichael] Ballantyne, “The False Step”, in Blue Lights: Or Hot Work in the Soudan. […], London: James Nisbet & Co., […], →OCLC, page 1
Forms of lakelet
| plural | lakelets |
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Origin of lakelet
From lake + -let.
Questions about lakelet
- What does lakelet mean?
- Lakelet means a small lake.
- What part of speech is lakelet?
- Lakelet is a noun.
- What is the plural of lakelet?
- The plural of lakelet is lakelets.
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