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GREAT SLAVE LAKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Great Slave Lake mean?
• GREAT SLAVE LAKE (noun)
The noun GREAT SLAVE LAKE has 1 sense:
1. a lake in the Northwest Territories in northwestern Canada; drained by the Mackenzie River
Familiarity information: GREAT SLAVE LAKE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A lake in the Northwest Territories in northwestern Canada; drained by the Mackenzie River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)
Holonyms ("Great Slave Lake" is a part of...):
Northwest Territories (a large territory in northwestern Canada; part is now Nunavut)
Context examples
Three Eagles was going away on a trip up the Mackenzie to the Great Slave Lake.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It was in a village at the Great Slave Lake, that, in the course of resenting the evil of the hands of the man-animals, he came to modify the law that he had learned from Grey Beaver: namely, that the unpardonable crime was to bite one of the gods.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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