salt lake

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salt lake¹

  • /ˈsɔːlt ˌleɪk/

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From salt + lake.

noun salt lakes

  1. A landlocked body of water with a high concentration of salts and other dissolved minerals.

Salt Lake²

proper noun

  1. attributive, in compounds Salt Lake City (a city in Utah, United States). If Expressjet found takers, the flight would get its passengers here in plenty of time for the Sunday evening screening of “Crude,” about the struggle between Ecuador’s indigenous people and the Chevron Corporation over toxic oil waste left behind by the makers of petroproducts like those that fly t
  2. regional Salt Lake City, Utah.
  3. Salt Lake, an alkaline lake on the Minnesota-South Dakota Border.
  4. A suburb of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

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noun body of water with a high concentration of salts

Españollago salado, lago salino
한국어염호 yeomho
日本語塩湖 enko
中文鹽湖 /盐湖 yánhú, 鹹水湖 /咸水湖 xiánshuǐhú, 鹽水湖 /盐水湖 yánshuǐhú
Portuguêslago salgado, lago salino
Françaislac salé
DeutschSalzsee
Italianolago salato
Ελληνικάαλμυρή λίμνη almyrí límni
Românălac sărat
Русскийминера́льное о́зеро minerálʹnoje ózero, солёное озеро soljónoje ozero
Tiếng Việthồ nước mặn, hồ muối
العربيةبُحَيْرَة مِلْحَة
עבריתאגם מלח agám meláh

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@misc{salt_lake_2026,
  title = {salt lake},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/salt%20lake},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}