Lagoon

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  • noun. A shallow body of water, especially one separated from a sea by sandbars or coral reefs.
  • noun. A shallow artificial pond used for treating or storing liquid waste material or for collecting flood waters.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An area of shallow water, or even of marshy land, bordering on the sea, and usually separated from the region of deeper water outside by a belt of sand or of sand-dunes, more or less changeable in position.
  • noun. With reference to Tuscany and some other parts of Italy, the basin of a hot spring, especially one from which borax is obtained: from the Italian use of lagone in this sense.
  • noun. In occasional use, the area of still water inclosed within an atoll, which is often called a lagoon island. See atoll.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows.
  • noun. A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll.
  • noun. a coral island consisting of a narrow reef encircling a lagoon.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral
  • Word Usage
    "I agree with you, though a lagoon is no millpond for riding it out."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    lake  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    liman  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bethune  Boone  Calhoun  June  Karun  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    basin  bay  bog  canal  cove  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    atoll