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LOCH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Scottish word for a lake
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("loch" is a kind of...):
lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)
Instance hyponyms:
Loch Achray (a lake in central Scotland)
Loch Ness (a lake in the Scottish highlands; the largest body of fresh water in Great Britain)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("loch" is a kind of...):
inlet; recess (an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands))
Instance hyponyms:
Loch Linnhe (an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean on the western coast of Scotland)
