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la·goon

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–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, lake¹; see lacuna

]

—Related forms

la·goon·al, adjective

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n.

A shallow body of water, especially one separated from a sea by sandbars or coral reefs.
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.]

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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.

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lagoon
noun
a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral

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lagoon [ləˈguːn] noun

a shallow stretch of water separated from the sea by sandbanks, coral reefs etc

Arabic:	بُحَيْرَه شاطئيَّه
Chinese (Simplified):	泻湖, 礁湖
Chinese (Traditional):	瀉湖, 礁湖
Czech:	laguna
Danish:	lagune
Dutch:	lagune
Estonian:	laguun
Finnish:	laguuni
French:	lagune
German:	die Lagune
Greek:	λιμνοθάλασσα
Hungarian:	lagúna
Icelandic:	lón
Indonesian:	laguna
Italian:	laguna

Japanese:	潟
Korean:	석호(潟湖)
Latvian:	lagūna
Lithuanian:	lagūna, negili lanka
Norwegian:	lagune
Polish:	laguna
Portuguese (Brazil):	laguna
Portuguese (Portugal):	lagoa
Romanian:	lagună
Russian:	лагуна
Slovak:	lagúna
Slovenian:	laguna
Spanish:	laguna
Swedish:	lagun
Turkish:	kıyı gölü, deniz kulağı

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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.
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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Chignik Lagoon, AK (CDP, FIPS 13670) Location: 56.28413 N, 158.51113 W
Population (1990): 53 (83 housing units)
Area: 31.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 99565

Nelson Lagoon, AK (CDP, FIPS 52940) Location: 55.92075 N, 161.18903 W
Population (1990): 83 (35 housing units)
Area: 634.7 sq km (land), 509.2 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 99571

Lower Grand Lagoon, FL (CDP, FIPS 41562) Location: 30.14385 N, 85.75079 W
Population (1990): 3329 (5152 housing units)
Area: 5.7 sq km (land), 1.3 sq km (water)

Upper Grand Lagoon, FL (CDP, FIPS 73312) Location: 30.16298 N, 85.74087 W
Population (1990): 7855 (4331 housing units)
Area: 21.4 sq km (land), 19.9 sq km (water)

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Lagoon

La*cu"na\, n.; pl. L. Lacun[ae]; E. Lacunas. [L., ditch, pit, lake, orig., anything hollow. See Lagoon.]

1. A small opening; a small pit or depression; a small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.

2. (Biol.) A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane.

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