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# lagoon

«lagoon» in Mova's school dictionary: **a stretch of salty or brackish water separated from the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a lagoon, lagoons)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A lagoon is a stretch of salty or brackish water separated from the sea by a sandbank, a reef or a strip of land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lagoon/#m1)

2) A lagoon can also be the calm water inside a ring-shaped coral island (an atoll). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lagoon/#m2)

3) A lagoon can be a pond or pool made by people, for example to hold waste water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lagoon/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons on coasts, lagoons form behind spits and barrier beaches; Venice is built in a lagoon. In science, lagoons are calm habitats for fish, birds and seagrass. In stories and adventure books, a "blue lagoon" is a calm, beautiful place on a tropical island. Phrases: «blue lagoon», «coral lagoon», «Venice lagoon».

### examples

- The children swam in the calm lagoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lagoon/#x1)
- A coral reef protects the lagoon from big waves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lagoon/#x2)
- Venice is built on islands in a lagoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lagoon/#x3)
- Flamingos fed in the shallow lagoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lagoon/#x4)
- The lagoon is separated from the sea by a sandbank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lagoon/#x5)
- We paddled a canoe across the lagoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lagoon/#x6)
- Peter was alone on the lagoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lagoon/#x7)

### note

Plural «lagoons». Say it "la-GOON". A lagoon is not a lake: a lake is fresh water inland; a lagoon is usually salty and near the sea.

### In the corpora

- [Venice was built on islands in a shallow lagoon at the top of the Adriatic Sea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lagoon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lagoon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.