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la⋅goon

[luh-goon]
–noun
1. an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes. Compare laguna.
2. Also, lagune. any small, pondlike body of water, esp. one connected with a larger body of water.
3. an artificial pool for storage and treatment of polluted or excessively hot sewage, industrial waste, etc.

Origin:
1605–15; earlier laguna (sing.), lagune (pl.) < It < L lacūna (sing.), lacūnae (pl.) ditch, pool, akin to lacus basin, lake 1 ; see lacuna


la⋅goon⋅al, adjective
la·goon   (lə-gōōn')   
n.  
  1. A shallow body of water, especially one separated from a sea by sandbars or coral reefs.
  2. A shallow body of liquid waste material, as one in a dump.

[French lagune and Italian laguna, both from Latin lacūna, pool, hollow, gap, from lacus, lake.]

Lagoon

La*goon"\, n. [It. or Sp. laguna, L. lacuna ditch, pool, pond, lacus lake. See Lake, and cf. Lacuna.] [Written also lagune.]

1. A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice.

2. A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll.

Lagoon island, a coral island consisting of a narrow reef encircling a lagoon.
Language Translation for : Lagoon
Spanish: laguna,
German: die Lagune,
Japanese:

lagoon 
1612, from Fr. lagune, from It. laguna "pond, lake," from L. lacuna "pond, hole," from lacus "pond" (see lake). Originally in ref. to the region of Venice; applied 1769 to the lake-like stretch of water enclosed in a South Seas atoll.
lagoon   (lə-gn')  Pronunciation Key 
  1. A shallow body of salt water close to the sea but separated from it by a narrow strip of land, such as a barrier island, or by a coral reef.
  2. A shallow pond or lake close to a larger lake or river but separated from it by a barrier such as a levee.

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