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Definition of Lake ilmen
1. Noun. A lake in northwestern Russia; drains through the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lake Ilmen
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 ..."