HURON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Huron mean? 

• HURON (noun)
  The noun HURON has 1 sense:

1. the 2nd largest of the Great Lakes

  Familiarity information: HURON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HURON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The 2nd largest of the Great Lakes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Huron; Lake Huron

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Huron" is a part of...):

Great Lakes (a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America)

 Context examples 

Measuring about 68 miles (110 kilometers) across, the caldera is deep enough to hold the entire volume of water in Lake Huron, and then some.

(Mars Volcano, Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time, NASA)

The exact composition of these liquid reservoirs remained elusive until 2014, when the Cassini radar instrument was first used to show that Ligeia Mare, the second largest sea on Titan and similar in size to Lake Huron and Lake Michigan combined, is methane-rich.

(Cassini Explores a Methane Sea on Titan, NASA)