Definition of Lake Ilmen

1. Noun. A lake in northwestern Russia; drains through the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga.

Exact synonyms: Ilmen
Group relationships: Russia, Russian Federation
Generic synonyms: Lake

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lake Ilmen

Lake Balaton
Lake Biwa
Lake Cayuga
Lake Chad
Lake Champlain
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
Lake Chelan
Lake Clark National Park
Lake Constance
Lake District
Lake Erie
Lake Eyre
Lake Geneva
Lake Huron
Lake Huron-Michigan
Lake Ilmen (current term)
Lake Kivu
Lake Ladoga
Lake Leman
Lake Malar
Lake Mead
Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan-Huron
Lake Miwok
Lake Mälaren
Lake Okeechobee
Lake Onega
Lake Ontario
Lake Peipus

Literary usage of Lake Ilmen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia by Edward Delmar Morgan, Charles Henry Coote, Anthony Jenkinson (1886)
"Lake Ilmen is fed by no less than twenty streams, but the old maps, with their exaggerated way of drawing rivers, only find room for three. ..."

2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1864)
"The principal rivers are the Msta, which enters the government from Tver, flows NW, and falls into Lake Ilmen; the Lovat and Pola, which fall into the same ..."

3. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1908)
"Lake Ilmen is really nothing more than a permanent inundation formed by a number of rivers which meet at a ... The streams which meet in Lake Ilmen are the ..."

4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1898)
"... of which the chief is near Lake Ilmen. There and in most of the other localities are developed the granular and gneissic varieties of ..."

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