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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 Riverplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GREAT SLAVE LAKE (noun)


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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