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Definition of Lakelike

1. lake [adj] - See also: lake

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lakelike

Literary usage of Lakelike

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

1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"The sunlight breaking suddenly on his sight turned the sky and clouds into a fantastic world of sombre masses with lakelike spaces of dark rosy light. ..."

2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"The sunlight breaking suddenly on his sight turned the sky and clouds into a fantastic world of sombre masses with lakelike spaces of dark rosy light. ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"For example, the loess was occasionally spread out, even at high levels, in broad, lakelike basins, as if deposited by water. Also the material now most ..."

4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"s ' ~ valley is a dead level with many swamps, and then comes the Alber" • lake. The lakelike reach of the Nile, narrowing at the ..."

5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"... built on the left bank of the lakelike reach 3 miles above. We passed a restless night, rocked in the swell of the rapid and disturbed by the roar of ..."

6. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"... then retreating far into the deep indentations of its shady banks, and again spreading out its waters into a tranquil, lakelike basin miles in extent, ..."

7. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"... then retreating far into the deep indentations of its shady banks, and again spreading out its waters into a tranquil, lakelike basin miles in extent, ..."

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