lakes
/leɪks/
lakes is the plural of lake.
lakes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lake.
Meaning of lake
Noun (1)
lake (plural lakes)
- A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
- Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- A large amount of liquid.
- a lake of wine
- Synonyms:
- mountain
- A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
- A pit, or ditch.
Noun (2)
lake (plural lakes)
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Lakes
the Lakes
- The Lake District, a rural area in northwest England.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Lakes
Lakes
- A civil parish in Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England.
- A state of South Sudan.
Proper noun (3) capitalized: Lakes
Lakes
- plural of Lake
Phrases with lakes
- dry lakes
- bore lakes
- data lakes
- lava lakes
- rose lakes
- salt lakes
- soda lakes
- Twin Lakes
- wine lakes
- brine lakes
- fjord lakes
- Great Lakes
48 more phrasesFewer phrases
- Manor Lakes
- oxbow lakes
- playa lakes
- quake lakes
- Salem Lakes
- Trent Lakes
- Cobaki Lakes
- crater lakes
- finger lakes
- kettle lakes
- London Lakes
- madder lakes
- maroon lakes
- Rideau Lakes
- Silver Lakes
- trough lakes
- barrier lakes
- crimson lakes
- Detroit Lakes
- glacial lakes
- lakes of Wada
- Mammoth Lakes
- Medford Lakes
- Muskoka Lakes
- Pompton Lakes
- prairie lakes
- Rotorua Lakes
- Taylors Lakes
- Belgrade Lakes
- Franklin Lakes
- Kawartha Lakes
- lacrimal lakes
- Lakes Entrance
- Mountain Lakes
- seasonal lakes
- Yosemite Lakes
- ephemeral lakes
- Patterson Lakes
- Big Lakes County
- Lauderdale Lakes
- meromictic lakes
- subglacial lakes
- Great Lakes physa
- Great Lakes State
- paternoster lakes
- Great Lakes physae
- Great Lakes physas
- intermittent lakes
Words that rhyme with lakes
Questions about lakes
- What does lakes mean?
- Lakes means the Lake District, a rural area in northwest England.
- What is lakes the plural of?
- Lakes is the plural of lake.
- What part of speech is lakes?
- Lakes is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce lakes?
- Lakes is pronounced /leɪks/.
Words near lakes in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lakes (page history and authors); Lakes (page history and authors); lake (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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