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Definition of Lake Ontario
1. Noun. The smallest of the Great Lakes.
Definition of Lake Ontario
1. Proper noun. One of the five Great Lakes of North America. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lake Ontario
Literary usage of Lake Ontario
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"From Lake Ontario the St Lawrence emerges through the meshes of the Thousand
Islands, where it crosses Archaean rocks, after which follow several rapids ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"The northern limits of peach-production extend from the southeastern shore of
Lake Ontario along the southern shore of Lake Erie and the eastern shore of ..."
3. Early Narratives of the Northwest, 1634-1699 by Louise Phelps Kellogg (1917)
"We passed this river, accordingly, and at last, after five days' voyage, arrived
at the end of Lake Ontario, where there is a fine large sandy bay, ..."
4. Annual Report (1895)
"Lake Ontario, as was shown in an earlier publication,1" is a basin bounded on
its southern side by escarpments, often precipitous, of which some of the ..."
5. Annual Report by Ontario Dept. of Highways, Ontario Dept. of Agriculture and Food, Ontario Dept. of Public Works (1897)
"A trail led from the Don to Burlington bay. Nottawasaga Bay was reached from Lake
Ontario by the Trent valley ; by the Do i or ..."
6. The Life of the Pleistocene Or Glacial Period: As Recorded in the Deposits by Frank Collins Baker (1920)
"... "When the Lake Ontario ice lobe had retreated far enough to uncover the southern
parts of the valleys of the Finger Lakes in central New York, ..."
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