Loch

Quick meaning: Loch is a noun meaning (Ireland, Scotland) A lake.

Meaning

(Ireland, Scotland) A lake.

More Meanings

1. (Ireland, Scotland) A bay or arm of the sea.
2. Alternative form of lohoch (“medicine taken by licking”).

Example Sentences

But, enchanting as are the woodland banks of the quiet stream, there is to me a higher and yet more powerful charm in the solitary wildness or savage grandeur of the Highland loch.

Little Loch Broom is a NW trending sea loch situated approximately 10 km west of Ullapool[…]. The flanks of the loch are characterized by rugged headlands backed by mountains such as An Teallach to the south and Beinn Ghobhlach to the north.

[…] Marmaduke Wetherell was hired by the Daily Mail newspaper to lead a search for the lair of the Loch Ness Monster. […] To everyone's surprise, within a few days of the start of his search, Wetherell came across a huge, four-toed footprint along the shoreline of the loch. This was just the sort of sensational story the newspaper was hoping for.

Mr. [James M.] Gale's scheme for doubling the [water] supply was carried through both Houses of Parliament, and was at once put into construction. It especially included the raising of the boundaries of the loch, and it brought into assistance and use other lochs in the Loch Katrine area; and Glasgow and its suburbs are now supplied with water as no other community in the kingdom is supplied.

Word Forms

• lochs

Synonyms for loch

Depending on context, synonyms include lough, lake, bay, firth.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lough, lake, hole, tay, lac, leven.

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