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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
baikal is a noun meaning "the largest freshwater lake in Asia or Europe and the deepest lake in the world". It carries one recorded sense.
the largest freshwater lake in Asia or Europe and the deepest lake in the world
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for baikal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.