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lakelet

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A small lake.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt The locality Strangway and his companions were now in was not unfamiliar to at least two of them, and as they knew it there was little difficulty in treading through the numerous salt lakes and lakelets which dotted the landscape.
  • 1907, Kalevala, translated by W. F. Kirby, Vol. 2, London: J.M. Dent & New York: E.P. Dutton, Runo XXXI, 137-140, p. 72, https://archive.org/details/kalevalalandofhe02kirbiala There was water in the lakelet, / Which perchance might fill two ladles, / Or if more exactly measured, / Partly was a third filled also.

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History

Etymology

From lake + -let.