LAKE SUPERIOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lake Superior mean? 

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

1. the largest freshwater lake in the world; the deepest of the Great Lakes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAKE SUPERIOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest freshwater lake in the world; the deepest of the Great Lakes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Lake Superior; Superior

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

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

 Context examples 

Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have determined.

(Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior, NASA)

Then he drifted back to Lake Superior, and he was still searching for something to do on the day that Dan Cody's yacht dropped anchor in the shallows along shore.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career—when he saw Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam digger and a salmon fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)