Proper noun
the Lakes
The Lake District, a rural area in northwest England.
A civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England.
A state of South Sudan.
Lakes
plural of Lake
Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms. Bruno Latour
At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia, are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the inhabitants thereabouts. Vitruvius
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths. Muhammad Ali
During the warm season (August 8 and 9), Maine is a true "vacation paradise," offering visitors a chance to jump into crystal-clear mountain lakes and see if they can get back out again before their bodily tissue is frozen as solid as a supermarket turkey. Dave Barry
It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa. James A. Michener