Definition of "lagoon" []

• A shallow body of water, especially one separated from a sea by sandbars or coral reefs. (noun)
• A shallow body of liquid waste material, as one in a dump. (noun)

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• "I agree with you, though a lagoon is no millpond for riding it out."
• "The lagoon is thirty miles long and five miles wide."
• "There is a sublime view of the lagoon from the summit of the mountains located north of the hacienda of La Labor."