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Lagune

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Dated form of lagoon.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. See lagoon.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. See lagoon.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral

Word Usage

"The word originated in Latin as lacuna, then later appears in Venice as laguna, transforms to lagune in French, then appears, anglicized as lagoon for the first time in 1769 to refer to the lake-like stretch of water enclosed in a South Seas atoll."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

lake

Variant

lagoon

Hyponym

liman