LAKE EYRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lake Eyre mean? 

• LAKE EYRE (noun)
  The noun LAKE EYRE has 1 sense:

1. a shallow salt lake in south central Australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAKE EYRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shallow salt lake in south central Australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Eyre; Lake Eyre

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)

Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)