LAKE ONTARIO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lake Ontario mean? 

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

1. the smallest of the Great Lakes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAKE ONTARIO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The smallest of the Great Lakes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Lake Ontario; Ontario

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

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

 Context examples 

Thanks to a rare orbital alignment between Europa and Io, an international team of researchers has identified and tracked a pair of lava waves as they coursed around Loki Patera, which is larger than Lake Ontario, and with a surface area of 8,300 square miles (21,500 square km).

(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)