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loch¹
- /lɔx/ Scotland
- /lɒk/ UK
- /lɒx/ UK
- /lɑk/ US
- /lɑx/ US
- /lɑç/ US
Sounds like lough, lock (when pronounced with /k/) · Rhymes with -ɒk, -ɒx
Where it comes from
From Middle English lough, borrowed from Scottish Gaelic loch. Doublet of lay, Looe, and lough.
noun lochs
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A lake.
The greater part of Leuchars Loch belonged to the Inneses of Leuchars, Cotts to the Inneses of Innes; and while thus poſſeſſed, many unſucceſsful attempts to drain both, by canals, to the river Loſſie, ſeem to have been made. […] [A] very ordinary fall of rain raiſes it [the river] far beyond its na
Similar: lake
- A bay or arm of the sea. It is well known, for instance, that the superiority of the herrings caught in the inland sea-lochs of Scotland is owing to the fish finding there a better feeding-ground than in the large and exposed open bays. Look, for instance, at Lochfyne: the land runs down to the water's edge, and the surface
Similar: lough
loch²
- /lɔx/ Scotland
- /lɒk/ UK
- /lɒx/ UK
- /lɑk/ US
- /lɑx/ US
- /lɑç/ US
Sounds like lough, lock (when pronounced with /k/) · Rhymes with -ɒk, -ɒx
Where it comes from
See lohoch.
noun lochs
- Alternative form of lohoch (“medicine taken by licking”). We may obtain, then, a just idea of the constitution of this liquid [milk], if we look upon it as a soft, liquid substance, a kind of loch,^* in which caseine, sugar, &c., are dissolved, and in which the fatty or oily substance is distributed in small, rounded atoms. [Footnote *: Loch, or lohoch, is
Loch³
Where it comes from
Two main origins:
* Borrowed from German Loch, a topographic surname for someone who lived by a hollow or valley.
* From Scottish Gaelic loch (“loch, lake”), a Scottish topographic surname.
proper noun Lochs
- A surname.
- A town in Bass Coast Shire and South Gippsland Shire, southern Victoria, Australia.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: lough, lake, hole, tay, lac, leven, gar, gap, katrine, keal, lomond, pond, pool, tarn, mere, cove
noun
Similar: lough
Translations
Talk about this word "loch." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/loch. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. loch. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/loch "loch." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/loch.Cite this
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title = {loch},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/loch},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
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