finger lakes

1. 1.

   a geographical area in central New York State that is named for a series of narrow glacial lakes that lie parallel in a north-south direction

   Broadergeographical area

Questions about finger lakes

What does finger lakes mean?

finger lakes means "a geographical area in central New York State that is named for a series of narrow glacial lakes that lie parallel in a north-south direction".

Is finger lakes a common word?

finger lakes is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.