LAKE VICTORIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lake Victoria mean? 

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

1. the largest lake in Africa and the 2nd largest fresh water lake in the world; a headwaters reservoir for the Nile River

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAKE VICTORIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest lake in Africa and the 2nd largest fresh water lake in the world; a headwaters reservoir for the Nile River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Lake Victoria; Victoria Nyanza

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Lake Victoria" 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 Victoria gets most of its water from rain — about 55 inches each year.

(Environmental change in Africa: Will it lead to a drying Lake Victoria?, National Science Foundation)

In Lake Victoria, for example, decreased water clarity has affected the reproduction of endemic cichlid fish, leading to the disappearance of dozens of species.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)

That would significantly affect the economic resources supplied by the lake and the livelihoods of approximately 40 million people living in the Lake Victoria Basin.

(Environmental change in Africa: Will it lead to a drying Lake Victoria?, National Science Foundation)

Using ancient sediment from outcrops along the edge of the lake, Emily Beverly, a sedimentary geologist at the University of Houston, along with researchers at Baylor University, generated a water-budget model to see how Lake Victoria's levels respond to changes in evaporation, temperature, rainfall and solar energy.

(Environmental change in Africa: Will it lead to a drying Lake Victoria?, National Science Foundation)

Global climate change could cause Africa's Lake Victoria, the world's largest tropical lake and source of the Nile River, to dry up in the next 500 years, according to new findings by a team led by University of Houston researchers.

(Environmental change in Africa: Will it lead to a drying Lake Victoria?, National Science Foundation)