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What does Great Lakes mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Great Lakes? Here's what it means.

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  1. A group of five lakes on the United States-Canada border, consisting of Lake Superior, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron (Lake Michigan–Huron), Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
  2. A group of lakes located in and around the East African Rift, including Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Malawi, and several others.
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Both species are distributed widely across eastern North America, including the Great Lakes and Ohio River drainage basins.
We are watching for the colder air to come over the warmer waters of the Great Lakes.
For more than 100 years, Wisconsin lighthouses have guided ships through our Great Lakes and inland waters.
In 1998, for example, Leahy attached a rider to a bill designating Vermont's Lake Champlain one of the Great Lakes.
Eastern woodlands and Great Lakes tribes created domed houses using lightweight stick frames covered by bark or woven mats.
Think of zebra mussels in the Great Lakes and Asian long-horned beetles in New York City.

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