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LAKE CHAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lake Chad mean? 

LAKE CHAD (noun)
  The noun LAKE CHAD has 1 sense:

1. a lake in north central Africa; fed by the Shari riverplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


LAKE CHAD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A lake in north central Africa; fed by the Shari river

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Chad; Lake Chad

Instance hypernyms:

lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)

Holonyms ("Lake Chad" is a part of...):

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)


 Context examples 


Lake Chad, which sits at the center of this transition zone, serves as a bellwether for changing conditions in the Sahel.

(New study finds world’s largest desert, the Sahara, has grown by 10 percent since 1920, National Science Foundation)



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