GREAT LAKES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Great Lakes mean? 

• GREAT LAKES (noun)
  The noun GREAT LAKES has 1 sense:

1. a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America

  Familiarity information: GREAT LAKES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREAT LAKES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)

Meronyms (parts of "Great Lakes"):

Erie; Lake Erie (the 4th largest of the Great Lakes; it is linked to the Hudson River by the New York State Barge Canal)

Huron; Lake Huron (the 2nd largest of the Great Lakes)

Lake Michigan; Michigan (the 3rd largest of the Great Lakes; the largest freshwater lake entirely within the United States borders)

Lake Ontario; Ontario (the smallest of the Great Lakes)

Lake Superior; Superior (the largest freshwater lake in the world; the deepest of the Great Lakes)

Holonyms ("Great Lakes" is a part of...):

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

 Context examples 

Powassan virus disease occurs primarily in northeastern states and the Great Lakes region.

(Tick salivary glands can be a tool to study virus transmission and infection, National Institutes of Health)

Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have determined.

(Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior, NASA)

Scientists at the Great Lakes Center for Fresh Waters and Human Health showed that shifts in metabolic functions of freshwater cyanobacteria present in toxic algal blooms take place according to the time of day.

(Research reveals harmful algal blooms' daily cycles, National Science Foundation)