LAKE MICHIGAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lake Michigan mean? 

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

1. the 3rd largest of the Great Lakes; the largest freshwater lake entirely within the United States borders

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAKE MICHIGAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The 3rd largest of the Great Lakes; the largest freshwater lake entirely within the United States borders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Lake Michigan; Michigan

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Great Lakes (a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America)

 Context examples 

The exact composition of these liquid reservoirs remained elusive until 2014, when the Cassini radar instrument was first used to show that Ligeia Mare, the second largest sea on Titan and similar in size to Lake Huron and Lake Michigan combined, is methane-rich.

(Cassini Explores a Methane Sea on Titan, NASA)