lakeshore

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *leg-der.

Proto-Germanic *lekanądeverb.

Proto-Germanic *lakō

Proto-West Germanic *laku

Old English lacu

Middle English lake

Proto-Indo-European *lókus

Proto-Italic *lakus

Latin lacuslbor.?

Old French lacbor.

Middle English lac

English lake

Proto-Germanic *skurô

Proto-West Germanic [Term?]

Old English *sċora

Middle English schore

English shore

English lakeshore

From lake + shore.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪk.ʃɔː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪk.ʃɔɹ/

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Noun

lakeshore (plural lakeshores)

1. (sometimes attributive) The shore of a lake.
   • 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

     We went to the lakeshore. We went holding hands. We kissed 4 times. The cold winds blew our hair and we sat embracing.

   • 2007, Laurie Lindeen, Petal Pusher: A Rock and Roll Cinderella Story, page 238:

     While I'm inspecting an affordable studio apartment in the back of a lakeshore apartment building, the manager says, “I also have a lakeview apartment available, but it's considerably more expensive.”

Synonyms

• lakefront

Translations

the shore of a lake

• Danish: søbred (da) c
• Dutch: meeroever m
• German: Seeufer (de) n
• Greek: ακρολιμνιά (el) f (akrolimniá), ακρόλιμνο (el) n (akrólimno)
• Hungarian: tópart (hu)
• Vietnamese: bờ hồ