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loch

noun , Scottish

Synonyms and Antonyms of loch

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 of loch

arm, bay, bight, cove, creek [chiefly British], embayment, estuary, firth, fjord (also fiord), gulf, inlet
Words Related to loch

harbor, port, road(s), roadstead

narrow, sound, strait

bayou

backwater, slough (also slew)

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