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Slave Lake

Slave Lake proper noun: former name of Great Slave Lake: a lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada.

Proper noun

Slave Lake

  1. Former name of Great Slave Lake: a lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
  2. Former name of Lesser Slave Lake: a lake in Alberta, Canada.
  3. A town in Lesser Slave, Alberta, Canada, on Lesser Slave Lake, at the head of Lesser Slave River.

Origin of Slave Lake

From being a lake 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 Slave Lake

Questions about Slave Lake

What does Slave Lake mean?
Slave Lake means former name of Great Slave Lake: a lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
What part of speech is Slave Lake?
Slave Lake is a proper noun.

Words near Slave Lake in the dictionary

  1. slave forks
  2. slave girl
  3. Slave Island
  4. slave labor
  5. slave labour
  6. Slave Lake
  7. slave market
  8. slave markets
  9. slave name
  10. slave names
  11. slave of the lamp

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