loch
[lok, lokh]
- a lake.
- a partially landlocked or protected bay; a narrow arm of the sea.
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Origin of loch
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Contemporary Examples
People like me believe it's like the Loch Ness monster: widely spoken about, but nobody has seen it for years.
Before he started singing, he was the guitarist for the band Loch Ness.
In “Inverness,” a botanist finds something like faith through an encounter with an obsessed Loch Ness Monster hunter.
Historical Examples
She was sentenced to be drowned next day in the Loch of Spynie.
Bygone PunishmentsWilliam Andrews
It's just like yesterday to me the day I met him, down at Bishop's Loch.
Jack HintonCharles James Lever
Our next trial is at Kilmichael, about three miles from Loch Gilp.
The Book-HunterJohn Hill Burton
Let us cross over again to the valley perforated by Loch Crinan.
The Book-HunterJohn Hill Burton
This occurrence drove him, for some time, from his stronghold on Loch Lomond.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745Mrs. Thomson
loch
- a Scot word for lake 1
- Also called: sea loch a long narrow bay or arm of the sea in Scotland
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Word Origin
C14: from Gaelic
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Word Origin and History for loch
n.
late 14c., from Gaelic loch "lake, narrow arm of the sea," cognate with Old Irish loch "body of water, lake," Breton lagen, Anglo-Irish lough, Latin lacus (see lake (n.1)). The Loch Ness monster is first attested 1933.
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