Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Land by a lake.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the shore of a lake.

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  • noun The shore of a lake.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the shore of a lake

Etymologies

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lake +‎ shore

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Examples

  • The main lakeshore highway has been widened and improved from Chapala as far as Jocotepec.

    Lake Chapala: 2000 follow-up to saving Mexico's largest lake 2000

  • The main lakeshore highway has been widened and improved from Chapala as far as Jocotepec.

    Lake Chapala: 2000 follow-up to saving Mexico's largest lake 2000

  • By then, the lakeshore will be his heavenly litterbox!

    chicagojo Diary Entry chicagojo 2003

  • "If you go east, you get to the Scarborough Bluffs, then you've got the Danforth - if cuisine is your thing - and you've got the lakeshore, which isn't far either."

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed SYDNIA YU 2011

  • This beach at the western end of the lakeshore is a swimming beach, although it is more popular for kayakers as a launch point to see the nearby sea caves along the Lake Superior shoreline.

    JSOnline.com 2010

  • So, when I got there, there were 150 chimps in three different communities living on the lakeshore which is about 300 miles altogether.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • So, when I got there, there were 150 chimps in three different communities living on the lakeshore which is about 300 miles altogether.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • Yet in the villages and by the lakeshore and in the bush people go on.

    An Interview with Paul Theroux 2010

  • A game warden approaches a fellow on the lakeshore with a 100 quart cooler (one of them big ones) filled up with Crappie.

    How About a Joke? 2009

  • Lakeside would be well served if even one tenth of the restaurants on the lakeshore exhibited the exacting standards and presented the outstanding and innovative cuisine of Tabarka.

    Cuisine From The Costa Blanca 2009

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