name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
loch
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Scotland: /lɔx/
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Received-Pronunciation: /lɒk/
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Received-Pronunciation: /lɒx/
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General-American: /lɑk/
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General-American: /lɑx/
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General-American: /lɑç/
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rhymes with -ɒk
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rhymes with -ɒx
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homophone: lough
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homophone: lock (when pronounced with /k/)
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CMU ARPABET: L AA1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A town in Bass Coast Shire and South Gippsland Shire, southern Victoria, Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A lake.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, Scotland
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noun
Meaning 4
A bay or arm of the sea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, Scotland
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noun
Meaning 5
Alternative form of lohoch (“medicine taken by licking”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Meaning 6
Scottish word for a lake
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: lake
Narrower terms: Loch Achray, Loch Ness
noun
Meaning 7
a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: inlet, recess
Narrower terms: Loch Linnhe
History
Etymology
Two main origins: * Borrowed from German Loch, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a hollow or valley. * From Scottish Gaelic loch (“loch, lake”), a Scottish topographic surname.
From Middle English lough, borrowed from Scottish Gaelic loch. Doublet of lay, Looe, and lough.
See lohoch.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Breton: loc'h — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- Bulgarian: е́зеро (ézero) — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- Chinese Mandarin: 湖 (hú) — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- Esperanto: loĥo — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- Finnish: järvi — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- French: loch — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- German: Loch — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- Greek: λίμνη (límni) — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- Greek: λοχ (loch) — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- Irish: loch — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- Macedonian: лох (loh) — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- Macedonian: езеро (ezero) — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- Manx: logh — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- Russian: лох (lox) — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- Russian: озеро (ozero) — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- Scottish Gaelic: loch — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- Spanish: lago — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- Vietnamese: vũng — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- Welsh: llwch — lake, bay or arm of the sea
- Welsh: llyn — lake, bay or arm of the sea