what is a lake

Lake National Geographic Society. A lake is a body of water that is surrounded by land. There are millions of lakes in the world. They are found on every continent and in every kind of environmentin mountains and deserts, on plains, and near seashores. See more

Lake National Geographic Society
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lake, any relatively large body of slowly moving or standing water that occupies an inland basin of appreciable size. Definitions that precisely distinguish lakes, ponds, swamps, and even rivers and other bodies of.