Definition of Great slave lake

1. Noun. A lake in the Northwest Territories in northwestern Canada; drained by the Mackenzie River.

Group relationships: Northwest Territories
Generic synonyms: Lake

Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Slave Lake

Great Pyramid
Great Pyramid at Giza
Great Pyramid of Giza
Great Pyrenees
Great Red Spot
Great Revolt
Great Rift Valley
Great Russian
Great Salt Lake
Great Sandy Desert
Great Satan
Great Seal
Great Seal of the United States
Great Sky River
Great Slave Lake
Great Smoky Mountains
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Great Turk
Great Victoria Desert
Great Wall
Great Wall of China
Great War
Great White North
Great White Way
Great Yarmouth
Great Year
Greater Antillean
Greater Antilles
Greater Armenia

Literary usage of Great slave lake

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"A JOURNEY FROM CHESTERFIELD INLET TO great slave lake, 1898-9.» By DAVID T. HANBURY. WITH the object in view of crossing and exploring that portion of the ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"The information regarding the forest-covered area on the Mackenzie River, north of great slave lake, is very scanty, and it appears doubtful whether the ..."

3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"ON THE ATHABASCA DISTRICT OF Kiver, a southern affluent of the great slave lake, the entire shore of that inland fresh-water sea up to and including the two ..."

4. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1859)
"The upper part of its course is obstructed by falls and rapids, after which it flows N. through an alluvial district, and enters Great Slave lake by 2 ..."

5. Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River by George Back (1836)
"Eastern Extremity of great slave lake. — Discovery of the River supposed to lead towards the ... great slave lake ..."

6. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"great slave lake (Fr. Lac de F Enclave), a large irregular sheet of water in a district of the same name in the northwest ..."

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