Meanings
salt lake1
nounsalt lake (plural salt lakes)
plural salt lakes
- A landlocked body of water with a high concentration of salts and other dissolved minerals.
Salt Lake2
proper noun
- attributivein compoundsSalt Lake City (a city in Utah, United States).
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If Expressjet found takers, the flight would get its passengers here in plenty of time for the Sunday evening screening of “Crude,” about the struggle between Ecuador’s indigenous people and the Chevron Corporation over toxic oil waste left behind by the makers of petroproducts like those that fly the planes, not to mention those fueling the limousines and rental cars that make the nearly 40-mile run to Park City from the Salt Lake airport.
2009 January 17, Michael Cieply, “The Films Are Green, but Is Sundance?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022 - regionalSalt Lake City, Utah.
- Salt Lake, an alkaline lake on the Minnesota-South Dakota Border.
- A suburb of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Translations
Arabic بُحَيْرَة مِلْحَة
- بُحَيْرَة مِلْحَةbody of water with a high concentration of salts
Bulgarian солено езеро
- солено езеро (soleno ezero)body of water with a high concentration of salts
Catalan llac salat
- llac salatbody of water with a high concentration of salts
Chinese Mandarin 鹽湖 /盐湖, 鹹水湖 /咸水湖
- 鹽湖 /盐湖 (yánhú)body of water with a high concentration of salts
- 鹹水湖 /咸水湖 (xiánshuǐhú)body of water with a high concentration of salts
- 鹽水湖 /盐水湖 (yánshuǐhú)body of water with a high concentration of salts
Czech slané jezero
- slané jezerobody of water with a high concentration of salts
Danish saltsø
- saltsøbody of water with a high concentration of salts
Dutch zoutmeer
- zoutmeerbody of water with a high concentration of salts
Esperanto salakva lago
- salakva lagobody of water with a high concentration of salts
Estonian soolajärv
- soolajärvbody of water with a high concentration of salts
Finnish suolajärvi
- suolajärvibody of water with a high concentration of salts
French lac salé
- lac salébody of water with a high concentration of salts
German Salzsee
- Salzseebody of water with a high concentration of salts
Greek αλμυρή λίμνη
- αλμυρή λίμνη (almyrí límni)body of water with a high concentration of salts
Hebrew אגם מלח
- אגם מלח (agám meláh)body of water with a high concentration of salts
Hungarian sóstó
- sóstóbody of water with a high concentration of salts
Indonesian danau garam
- danau garambody of water with a high concentration of salts
Irish loch salainn
- loch salainnbody of water with a high concentration of salts
Italian lago salato
- lago salatobody of water with a high concentration of salts
Japanese 塩湖
- 塩湖 (enko)body of water with a high concentration of salts
Korean 염호
- 염호 (yeomho)body of water with a high concentration of salts
Latin lacus salsus
- lacus salsusbody of water with a high concentration of salts
Latvian sālsezers
- sālsezersbody of water with a high concentration of salts
Lithuanian druskoežeris
- druskoežerisbody of water with a high concentration of salts
Norwegian Bokmål saltsjø
- saltsjøbody of water with a high concentration of salts
Persian دریاچه نمک
- دریاچه نمک (daryâče-ye namak)body of water with a high concentration of salts
Polish jezioro słone
- jezioro słonebody of water with a high concentration of salts
Portuguese lago salgado, lago salino
- lago salgadobody of water with a high concentration of salts
- lago salinobody of water with a high concentration of salts
Romanian lac sărat
- lac săratbody of water with a high concentration of salts
Russian минера́льное о́зеро, солёное озеро
- минера́льное о́зеро (minerálʹnoje ózero)body of water with a high concentration of salts
- солёное озеро (soljónoje ozero)body of water with a high concentration of salts
Slovak slano jezero
- slano jezerobody of water with a high concentration of salts
Spanish lago salado, lago salino
- lago saladobody of water with a high concentration of salts
- lago salinobody of water with a high concentration of salts
Swedish saltsjö
- saltsjöbody of water with a high concentration of salts
Thai ทะเลสาบน้ำเค็ม
- ทะเลสาบน้ำเค็มbody of water with a high concentration of salts
Turkish tuz gölü
- tuz gölübody of water with a high concentration of salts
Ukrainian мінеральне озеро
- мінеральне озеро (mineralʹne ozero)body of water with a high concentration of salts
Vietnamese hồ nước mặn, hồ muối
- hồ nước mặnbody of water with a high concentration of salts
- hồ muốibody of water with a high concentration of salts
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APA
salt lake. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/salt%20lake
MLA
“salt lake.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/salt%20lake. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “salt lake,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/salt%20lake.
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