Phrase guide

salt lake

name · noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈsɔːlt ˌleɪk/
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1

name

Meaning 1

Salt Lake City (a city in Utah, United States).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: attributive, in-compounds

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2

name

Meaning 2

Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Usage: regional

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3

name

Meaning 3

Salt Lake, an alkaline lake on the Minnesota-South Dakota Border.

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4

name

Meaning 4

A suburb of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

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5

noun

Meaning 5

A landlocked body of water with a high concentration of salts and other dissolved minerals.

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History

Etymology

From salt + lake.

Across languages

Translations

54 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: بُحَيْرَة مِلْحَة — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Azerbaijani: duzlu göl — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Belarusian: мінеральнае возера (minjeralʹnaje vózjera) — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Bulgarian: солено езеро (soleno ezero) — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Catalan: llac salat — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鹽湖 /盐湖 (yánhú) — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鹹水湖 /咸水湖 (xiánshuǐhú) — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鹽水湖 /盐水湖 (yánshuǐhú) — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Czech: slané jezero — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Danish: saltsø — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Dutch: zoutmeer — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Esperanto: salakva lago — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Estonian: soolajärv — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Finnish: suolajärvi — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • French: lac salé — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Georgian: მლაშე ტბა (mlaše ṭba) — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • German: Salzsee — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Greek: αλμυρή λίμνη (almyrí límni) — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Hebrew: אגם מלח (agám meláh) — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Hungarian: sóstó — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Indonesian: danau garam — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Ingrian: soolajärvi — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Irish: loch salainn — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Italian: lago salato — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Japanese: 塩湖 (enko) — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Kazakh: тұзды көл (tūzdy köl) — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Korean: 염호 (yeomho) — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Latin: lacus salsus — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Latvian: sālsezers — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Lithuanian: druskoežeris — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Macedonian: солено езеро (soleno ezero) — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Manchu: ᡩᠠᠪᠰᡠᠨ ᠨᠣᠣᡵ (dabsun noor) — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Norwegian Bokmål: saltsjø — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: saltsjø — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Persian: دریاچه نمک (daryâče-ye namak) — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Polish: jezioro słone — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Portuguese: lago salgado — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Portuguese: lago salino — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Romanian: lac sărat — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Russian: минера́льное о́зеро (minerálʹnoje ózero) — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Russian: солёное озеро (soljónoje ozero) — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Serbo-Croatian: слано језеро — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Serbo-Croatian: slano jezero — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Slovak: slano jezero — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Slovene: slano jezero — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Southern Altai: тусту кӧл (tustu köl) — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Spanish: lago salado — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Spanish: lago salino — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Swedish: saltsjö — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Thai: ทะเลสาบน้ําเค็ม — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Turkish: tuz gölü — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Ukrainian: мінеральне озеро (mineralʹne ozero) — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Vietnamese: hồ nước mặn — body of water with a high concentration of salts
  • Vietnamese: hồ muối — body of water with a high concentration of salts