Definition of Lake victoria

1. Noun. The largest lake in Africa and the 2nd largest fresh water lake in the world; a headwaters reservoir for the Nile River.

Exact synonyms: Victoria Nyanza
Group relationships: Africa
Generic synonyms: Lake

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lake Victoria

Lake Mälaren
Lake Okeechobee
Lake Onega
Lake Ontario
Lake Peipus
Lake Saint Clair
Lake St. Clair
Lake Superior
Lake Tahoe
Lake Tana
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Trasimenus
Lake Tsana
Lake Vanern
Lake Victoria
Lake Winnipeg
Lake Wobegon effect
Lakeisha
Lakeland
Lakeland terrier
Laker
Lakers
Lakes
Lakher
Lakhimpur
Lakhota
Laki-Lorand factor
Lakist
Lakists

Literary usage of Lake victoria

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"From lake victoria (Sor-Kul) in the Pamirs, which was originally ... the principal glacial tributary of lake victoria forms, within the folds of the ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"Speke's journey in 1858 from Kazeh to lake victoria Nyanza, opened up an entirely new district of Africa, and, succeeded as it was by his longer exploration ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"... when some of our friends, to whom we had looked for assistance in demarcating the PILLAR NO. 1, AT EAST END OF lake victoria, ON WHICH THE RUSSIAN AND ..."

4. Through the Dark Continent: Or, The Sources of the Nile, Around the Great by Henry Morton Stanley (1879)
"... Nile — Burton on the Nile basin — Lake Tanganika — lake victoria — Speke, Grant, and Cameron — The Livingstone River — The work before me. ..."

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