man-made lake

Questions about man-made lake

What does man-made lake mean?

man-made lake means "lake used to store water for community use".

What is another word for man-made lake?

Close synonyms include reservoir, artificial lake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is man-made lake a common word?

man-made lake 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.