Great Lakes

English

Proper noun

the Great Lakes

1. A group of five lakes on the United States-Canada border, consisting of Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron (Lake Michigan–Huron), Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
2. A group of lakes located in and around the East African Rift, including Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Malawi, and several others.

Translations

a group of five lakes on the United States-Canada border

• Arabic: اَلْبُحَيْرَات اَلْعُظْمَى f pl (al-buḥayrāt al-ʕuẓmā)
• Breton: Lennoù Meur pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 五大湖 (zh) (Wǔ Dà Hú)

• Danish: Store søer
• Dutch: Grote Meren (nl) pl
• Estonian: Suur järvistu
• Finnish: Pohjois-Amerikan suuret järvet
• French: Grands Lacs (fr) m pl
• German: Große Seen (de) m pl
• Hungarian: Nagy-tavak (hu)
• Japanese: 五大湖 (ごだいこ, Godaiko)
• Korean: 오대호 (Odaeho) (五大湖 (ko))
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: De store sjøer

  Nynorsk: Dei store sjøane

• Persian: دریاچه‌های بزرگ (daryâče-hâ-ye bozorg)
• Polish: Wielkie Jeziora Północnoamerykańskie (pl) n pl
• Portuguese: Grandes Lagos m pl
• Russian: Вели́кие озёра (ru) n pl (Velíkije ozjóra)
• Slovene: Velika jezera
• Spanish: Grandes Lagos m pl
• Swedish: Stora sjöarna
• Vietnamese: Ngũ Đại Hồ (五大湖), Hồ Lớn Bắc Mỹ
• Welsh: Llynnoedd Mawr

a group of lakes located in and around the East African Rift

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• Vietnamese: Hồ Lớn châu Phi, Đại Hồ châu Phi, Đại Hồ Phi châu (dated)