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Definition: Lagoon |
LagoonNoun1. A body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lagoon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Etymology: Lagoon \La*goon"\, noun. [Italian or Spanish laguna, from Latin expression lacuna ditch, pool, pond, lacus lake. See Lake, and compare to Lacuna.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a lagoon, denotes that you will be drawn into a whirlpool of doubt and confusion through misapplication of your intelligence. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Energy | In wastewater treatment or livestock facilities, a shallow pond used to store wastewater where sunlight and biological activity decompose the waste. (references) |
Environment | 1. A shallow pond where sunlight, bacterial action, and oxygen work to purify wastewater; also used for storage of wastewater or spent nuclear fuel rods. 2. Shallow body of water, often separated from the sea by coral reefs or sandbars. (references) |
Literature | Lagoon A shallow lake near river or sea, due to infiltration or overflow of water from the larger body. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A pond, natural or artificial, for recovering the solids from washery effluent. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | A shallow area of water separated from the ocean by a sandbank or by a strip of low land. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A lagoon is a stretch of comparatively shallow salt water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed sandbank, coral reef, or similar structure. Thus, the enclosed body of water behind a barrier reef such as an atoll's reef is called a lagoon.This application of lagoon in English dates from 1769. It adapted and extended the sense of the Venetian laguna (cf Latin lacuna, 'empty space'), which specifically referred to Venice's shallow, island-studded stretch of salt water, protected from the Adriatic by the barrier beaches of the Lido.
On the Mid-Atlantic Coast of the United States, such lagoons enclosed by barrier islands retain the more traditional designation 'soundss.' Albemarle Sound and Pamlico Sound might more accurately be termed lagoons. Though Long Island Sound is a true sound, Great South Bay, between Long Island and the barrier beaches of Fire Island, is actually a lagoon.
The name is also given to an artificial pond used for the treatment of effluent (usually to oxygenate or settle particulates) or to accommodate an overspill from surface drains during heavy rainfall.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lagoon."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Venetian Lagoon is a lagoon off the Adriatic Sea in which the city of Venice is situated.Some of the other islands are:
- Murano
- Burano
- Torcello
- Isola Di San Michele
- Venice's Lido
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Venetian Lagoon."
Synonyms: LagoonSynonyms: laguna (n), lagune (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Gulf Lake | Noun: land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou, fiord, armlet; frith, firth, ostiary, mouth; lagune, lagoon; indraught; cove, creek; natural harbor; roads; strait; narrows; Euripus; sound, belt, gut, kyles; continental slope, continental shelf. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lagoon |
| English words defined with "lagoon": atoll ♦ Barrier reef ♦ capital of Benin, Coral reefs ♦ Lagoon island ♦ Porto Novo ♦ Venezia, Venice. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lagoon": Anaerobic Digester ♦ settling pond, Sewage Lagoon, slurry pond, Surface impoundment ♦ Waste treatment pond. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lagoon": lacuna. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Lost Lagoon (1958) Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) The Blue Lagoon (1949) Sleepy Lagoon (1943) The Blue Lagoon (1923) | |
Song Titles | Sleepy Lagoon (performing artist: The Platters) | |
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 | Giant Twisters in the Lagoon Nebula. Credit: NASA. |  | One-half light-year long interstellar "twisters" in the Lagoon Nebula (M8) in the constellation Sagittarius. Credit: NASA. |
 | Closer view of the "twisters" in the Lagoon Nebula. Credit: NASA. |  | Gray whale - Eschrichtius robustus - at Scammons Lagoon. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |
 | Survey boat in Philippine lagoon. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Launch hydrography three-point sextant fix Surveying lagoon at Kwajalein Island Party off of PIONEER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Pacific atoll with inner lagoon showing coral heads. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Classic atoll with barrier reef on the outside and lagoon on the inside. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A weasel making its way across a lagoon at Point Lay. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Flying over the lagoon ice at Tigvariak Island. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| "Ibiza Beach Lagoon" by Vaughan James Commentary: "Small holiday beach near Ibiza with clear blue ocean." | "Lagoon" by Henk Badenhorst Commentary: "Shot of HErmanus lagoon, B/W." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The climate of the country has favored nice and exciting geographic features including beaches in the South-Western region in San Pedro, Grand Berebi, Sassandra, and Grand Lahou, wild forest, lagoon villages in Assinie and Tiagba. (references) | |
Economic History | Kiribati | Its location is Lagoon Road, Majuro. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | The Government revised plans for a third bridge across Abidjan's lagoon to reduce costs. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | It also has numerous smaller vessels used to control immigration and contraband within the lagoon system. (references) | |
Human Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | Following the October 2000 presidential elections and subsequent demonstrations and violence, 18 bodies were found washed ashore in Abidjan's lagoon; the bodies had been shot numerous times. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | Unlike in the previous year, gendarmes and members of the military did not make frequent visits, sometimes heavily armed and in armored vehicles or in boats, to the residence of RDR presidential candidate Alassane Ouattara, whose house is located on the Ebrie Lagoon. (references) | |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | The De Gaulle and Houphouet-Boigny bridges, which cross the lagoon in Abidjan, are dangerous areas for pedestrians, even in the daytime. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Lagoon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.14% of the time. "Lagoon" is used about 185 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.14% | 176 | 23,410 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.86% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 185 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "lagoon": Chignik Lagoon ♦ Lagoon island ♦ Lower Grand Lagoon ♦ Nelson Lagoon ♦ Upper Grand Lagoon. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "lagoon": lagoon-blue, lagoon-style. | |
Ending with "lagoon": Monster-from-the-blue-lagoon. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
lagoon | 884 | truk lagoon | 45 |
blue lagoon | 459 | lagoon seaside | 42 |
typhoon lagoon | 321 | blue lagoon iceland | 38 |
lagoon utah | 315 | city lagoon | 33 |
lagoon splash | 239 | mosquito lagoon | 33 |
lagoon movie | 217 | bintan lagoon resort | 32 |
lagoon shermans | 204 | sunset lagoon | 31 |
amusement lagoon park | 195 | blue brooke lagoon shield | 30 |
bahamut lagoon | 143 | salt lake city lagoon | 29 |
creature from the black lagoon | 111 | lagoon monsoon | 27 |
sunway lagoon | 109 | lagoon pool | 26 |
bahamut lagoon rom | 79 | erie lagoon pa splash | 26 |
bora bora lagoon resort | 76 | amusement lagoon park utah | 25 |
blue lagoon movie | 68 | bintan lagoon | 24 |
lagoon park | 61 | lagoon park utah | 24 |
creeper lagoon | 56 | blue lagoon island | 22 |
lagoon sleepy | 56 | the sunset lagoon hotel marina | 21 |
return to blue lagoon | 54 | farmington lagoon utah | 21 |
lagoon park theme | 53 | blue lagoon spa | 21 |
in lagoon utah | 45 | big lagoon park state | 20 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "lagoon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | lagunë. (various references) | |
Arabic | هور بحيرة ضحلة, بحيرة مجانية, بحيرة مالحة. (various references) | |
Aymara | isk'aqota. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лагуна (backwater). (various references) | |
Chinese | 瀉湖 , 盐水湖. (various references) | |
Czech | laguna, jezírko. (various references) | |
Danish | lagune (backwater), kystsoe, iltningskanal (oxidation pond), åben møddingsgrav i fri luft (oxidation pond). (various references) | |
Dutch | lagune (backwater), kustmeer. (various references) | |
Esperanto | laguno. (various references) | |
Farsi | مرداب (Backwater, Marsh, Mere, Morass, Quagmire, Swamp, Swampland), تالاب (Pond). (various references) | |
Finnish | laguuni (backwater). (various references) | |
French | lagune, lagon (coastal lagoon). (various references) | |
German | Lagune (laguna). (various references) | |
Greek | λιμνοθάλασσα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לגונה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | lagúna. (various references) | |
Italian | laguna. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鹹湖 (salt lake), 潟湖 , 潟 , 潟 , 海跡湖 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せきこ, かた (data-type, excess, many, model, mold, person, plentiful, shape, shoulder, style, superabundance), かいせきこ, かんこ (acclamation, completely drying up, dry and harden, jubilation, salt lake). (various references) | |
Korean | 초호. (various references) | |
Manx | mooirlagh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | lagune. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agoonlay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | laguna (backwater), lagoa (catchment basin, lochan, mere, pond, pool). (various references) | |
Romanian | liman (bank, coast, estuary, Firth, Harbor, harbour, haven, refuge, shore), lagunã (Lough). (various references) | |
Russian | лагуна. (various references) | |
Sepedi | letshanatswai. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | laguna. (various references) | |
Spanish | laguna (blank, gap, hiatus, lacuna). (various references) | |
Swedish | lagun (Lagune). (various references) | |
Turkish | gölcük (Linn, pond, pool, puddle, small lake), denizkulağı, denizin uzantısı göl. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | лагуна. (various references) | |
Welsh | morllyn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lacuna. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | laguna. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lagoon": lagoonal, lagoons. (additional references) | |
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"Lagoon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Algon, Alogo, aloon, altagoan, Blaggdon, Blagoev, Blagov, glagol, kagool, klagon, labon, laggon, lago, lagu, lagun, Langon, lapon, Laugeson, Laxon, layon, Layoun, Legon, legoom, legson, ligon, Llagonne, lugon, oligodon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lagoon" (pronounced luguw"n) |
| 3 | -g uw" n | goon. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l-n-o-o" | |
-1 letter: along, logan. | |
-2 letters: agon, gaol, goal, goon, lang, loan, logo, long, loon, nolo. | |
-3 letters: ago, gal, gan, goa, goo, lag, log, loo, nag, nog, noo. | |
-4 letters: ag, al, an, go, la, lo, na, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-l-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: bologna, dongola, galloon, gondola, lagoons. | |
+2 letters: bolognas, dongolas, galloons, golconda, gondolas, gonfalon, hooligan, isogonal, lagoonal, longboat, oogonial. | |
+3 letters: analogous, anthology, golcondas, gonfalons, hallooing, halogeton, holloaing, hooligans, isogonals, lognormal, longboats, octagonal, polygonal. | |
+4 letters: alongshore, angelology, anglophone, avgolemono, ballooning, balneology, canoodling, carpooling, clangorous, cognominal, colocating, conglobate, craniology, elongation, enological, gonococcal, gonorrheal, halogenous, halogetons, lampooning, langostino, languorous, longbowman, nematology, nonlogical, obligation, oceanology, offloading, oleaginous, organology, orthogonal, palynology, platooning, theologian, toolmaking, urbanology, vanpooling. | |
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