Great Lakes

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɹeɪt.leɪks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

the Great Lakes pl (normally plural, singular Great Lake)

1. A group of five lakes on the United States–Canada border, consisting of Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron (Lake Michigan–Huron), Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
   • 2015 October 22, Michael Pearson, “153-year-old shipwreck found in Lake Ontario”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     A ship called the Vandalia out of Oswego is widely credited as the first propeller-driven steamship on the Great Lakes in 1841.

2. (without "the") A settlement in the city of North Chicago, Lake County, Illinois, around Great Lakes station, named after the Naval Station Great Lakes.
3. A group of lakes located in and around the East African Rift, including Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Malawi, and several others.

Translations

a group of five lakes on the United States–Canada border

• Afrikaans: Groot Mere
• Albanian: Liqenet e Mëdha
• Amharic: ታላላቁ ሀይቆች (talalaḳu häyḳoč)
• Arabic: اَلْبُحَيْرَات اَلْعُظْمَى f pl (al-buḥayrāt al-ʕuẓmā)
• Armenian: Մեծ Լճեր (Mec Lčer)
• Azerbaijani: Böyük göllər
• Basque: Aintzira Handiak pl
• Belarusian: Вялікія азёры n pl (Vjalikija azjóry)
• Bengali: বৃহৎ হ্রদসমূহ (brihot hrodśomuho)
• Breton: Lennoù Meur pl
• Bulgarian: Големите езера n pl (Golemite ezera)
• Burmese: ဂရိတ်လိတ် (ga.ritlit)
• Catalan: Grans Llacs d'Amèrica del Nord m, Grans Llacs m pl
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 五大湖 (ng⁵ daai⁶ wu⁴)

  Mandarin: 五大湖 (zh) (Wǔ Dà Hú)

• Czech: Velká jezera n pl
• Danish: Store søer c pl
• Dutch: Grote Meren (nl) pl
• Esperanto: Grandaj Lagoj
• Estonian: Suur järvistu
• Finnish: Isotjärvet, Pohjois-Amerikan Isotjärvet, Pohjois-Amerikan suuret järvet
• French: Grands Lacs (fr) m pl
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Grutte Marren pl

• Galician: Grandes Lagos m pl
• Georgian: დიდი ტბები (didi ṭbebi)
• German: Große Seen (de) m pl
• Greek: Μεγάλες Λίμνες f pl (Megáles Límnes)
• Hebrew: הימות הגדולות m (ha-yámot ha-gadólot)
• Hindi: विशाल झीलें (viśāl jhīlẽ)
• Hungarian: Nagy-tavak (hu)
• Icelandic: Vötnin miklu n pl
• Indonesian: Danau-Danau Besar
• Irish: Na Lochanna Móra m pl
• Italian: Grandi Laghi m pl
• Japanese: 五大湖 (ja) (ごだいこ, Godaiko)
• Kannada: ಮಹಾ ಸರೋವರಗಳು (mahā sarōvaragaḷu)
• Kazakh: Ұлы көлдер (Ūly kölder)
• Khmer: មហាបឹង (mɔɔhaabəng)
• Korean: 오대호(五大湖) (Odaeho)
• Kyrgyz: Улуу көлдөр (Uluu köldör)
• Latvian: Lielie ezeri m pl
• Lithuanian: Didieji ežerai m pl
• Macedonian: Големи Езера n pl (Golemi Ezera)
• Malay: Tasik-Tasik Besar Amerika
• Malayalam: മഹാ തടാകങ്ങൾ (mahā taṭākaṅṅaḷ)
• Marathi: ग्रेट लेक्स (greṭ leksa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: De store sjøer m pl

  Nynorsk: Dei store sjøane m pl

• Ojibwe: gichigamiin inan pl
• Persian: دریاچه‌های بزرگ (daryâče-hâ-ye bozorg)
• Polish: Wielkie Jeziora Północnoamerykańskie (pl) nvir pl, Kraina Wielkich Jezior (pl) f
• Portuguese: Grandes Lagos m pl
• Punjabi: ਮਹਾਨ ਝੀਲਾਂ (mahān jhīlā̃)
• Romanian: Marile Lacuri m pl
• Russian: Вели́кие озёра n pl (Velíkije ozjóra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Велика језера n pl

  Latin: Velika jezera n pl

• Slovak: Veľké kanadské jazerá n pl
• Slovene: Velika jezera n pl
• Spanish: Grandes Lagos m pl
• Swedish: Stora sjöarna c pl
• Tamil: அமெரிக்கப் பேரேரிகள் (amerikkap pērērikaḷ)
• Telugu: మహా సరస్సులు (mahā sarassulu)
• Thai: เกรตเลกส์ (grèet-leeks)
• Turkish: Büyük Göller (tr)
• Turkmen: Beýik köller
• Ukrainian: Вели́кі озе́ра n pl (Velýki ozéra)
• Uzbek: Buyuk koʻllar
• Vietnamese: Ngũ Đại Hồ (五大湖), Hồ Lớn Bắc Mỹ
• Welsh: Llynnoedd Mawr m pl

a group of lakes located in and around the East African Rift

• Finnish: Afrikan Isotjärvet
• Polish: Wielkie Jeziora Afrykańskie nvir pl
• Swahili: Maziwa Makuu class VI
• Vietnamese: Hồ Lớn châu Phi, Đại Hồ châu Phi, Đại Hồ Phi châu (dated)