Synonyms of loch

loch

noun

Scottish

as in bay

a part of a body of water that extends beyond the general shoreline

in his biography of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell tells of being conducted by a Scottish boatman "across one of the lochs, as they call them, or arms of the sea"

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bay
• estuary
• firth
• cove
• fiord
• fjord
• creek
• gulf
• inlet
• port
• arm
• embayment
• bight
• harbor
• bayou
• sound
• strait
• roadstead
• narrow
• road(s)
• slough
• backwater
• slue
• slew