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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A group of five freshwater lakes of central North America between the United States and Canada, including Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. The Great Lakes connect Midwestern ports with the Atlantic Ocean via the St. Lawrence Seaway.
- A group of several large lakes in the vicinity of the Great Rift Valley in eastern Africa. The group is generally considered to include Lakes Victoria, Albert, Edward, Kivu, Tanganyika, and Nyasa.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A group of five lakes on the
United States -Canada border , consisting ofLake Superior ,Lake Michigan andLake Huron (Lake Michigan–Huron ),Lake Erie andLake Ontario .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America
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Chicago, Milwaukee, and Detroit are part of a large economic region in the upper Midwest of the United States, which is sometimes referred to as the Great Lakes Region.
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The subsidies go to about a dozen airlines, but in 2010 almost one-third of the entire budget — $67.8 million —went to Great Lakes, which is based in Cheyenne, Wyo.
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The subsidies go to about a dozen airlines, but in 2010 almost one-third of the entire budget — $67.8 million —went to Great Lakes, which is based in Cheyenne, Wyo.
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During the great depression about a hundred auto manufacturers called the Great Lakes region home.
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COOPER: Well, the Great Lakes are the largest system of fresh water on earth.
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NGUYEN: Well, the Great Lakes are the largest system of fresh surface water on Earth.
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As a defense against terrorism, militarizing the Great Lakes is a symbolic defeat.
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But it does take place on the Great Lakes, which is as good as on the border.
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In the Africa region known as the Great Lakes, such a force could intervene in northern Uganda, which has been ravaged by a rebel war since 1986, or in unstable parts of eastern Democratic
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