Lake District

noun

1. a mountainous region in NW England containing many lakes: tourist center.

Lake District

noun

1. a region of lakes and mountains in NW England, in Cumbria: includes England's largest lake (Windermere) and highest mountain (Scafell Pike); national park; literary associations (the Lake Poets); tourist region Also calledLakeland

Example Sentences

His father, the Seventh Earl—or ‘Lordie’ as he is still known in the Lake District—was a far more conventional figure.

From The Daily Beast

A week later Gill, 32, was taking a break in the Lake District, a picturesque sweep of mountains outside Manchester.

From The Daily Beast

No one who had not visited it before would miss the Lake District in the north of England.

From Project Gutenberg

Parliament has several times intervened to save the Lake District from the desecrating intrusion of useless railways.

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Once we went together for a much-needed rest to the Lake District.

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We passed the "Lake District" to the left the next morning, where it always rains, we are told.

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Lake District, places visited in, by Keats with Brown, 272-3 et sqq.

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