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LIMAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does liman mean?
• LIMAN (noun)
The noun LIMAN has 1 sense:
1. a long narrow lagoon near the mouth of a river
Familiarity information: LIMAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A long narrow lagoon near the mouth of a river
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("liman" is a kind of...):
lagoon; laguna; lagune (a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral)
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