LAGOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lagoon mean? 

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

1. a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAGOON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

lagoon; laguna; lagune

Hypernyms ("lagoon" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lagoon"):

liman (a long narrow lagoon near the mouth of a river)

 Context examples 

We have been privileged to overhear a prehistoric tragedy, the sort of drama which occurred among the reeds upon the border of some Jurassic lagoon, when the greater dragon pinned the lesser among the slime, said Challenger, with more solemnity than I had ever heard in his voice.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Under the bow the water was hissing as from a steam jet, the air was filled with driven spray, there was a rush and rumble and long-echoing roar, and the canoe floated on the placid water of the lagoon.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It floods the banks, extends in great lagoons over a monstrous waste of country, and forms a huge district, called locally the Gapo, which is for the most part too marshy for foot-travel and too shallow for boating.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Having thus, amid a general titter, played very prettily with his interrupter, the lecturer went back to his picture of the past, the drying of the seas, the emergence of the sand-bank, the sluggish, viscous life which lay upon their margins, the overcrowded lagoons, the tendency of the sea creatures to take refuge upon the mud-flats, the abundance of food awaiting them, their consequent enormous growth.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)