onega

1. 1.

   lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland; second largest lake in Europe

   SynonymsLake Onega

   Broaderlake

   Part ofRussia

Other forms of onega

plural

onegas·

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.

Questions about onega

What does onega mean?

onega means "lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland; second largest lake in Europe".

How many syllables are in onega?

onega has 3 syllables: o-ne-ga. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for onega?

Close synonyms include Lake Onega. 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 onega a common word?

onega 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.