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Lake Leman

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Ge·ne·va  (j-nv)
A city of southwest Switzerland located on Lake Geneva and bisected by the Rhone River. Originally an ancient Celtic settlement, it was a focal point of the Reformation after the arrival of John Calvin in 1536. Geneva was the headquarters of the League of Nations (1920-1946) and is still the site of many international organizations. Population: 179,000.
Geneva, Lake also Lake Le·man  (lmn, l-m)
A lake on the Swiss-French border between the Alps and the Jura Mountains. It is traversed east to west by the Rhone River.
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Noun1.Lake LemanLake Leman - a lake between southwestern Switzerland and France that is crossed from east to west by the Rhone
Lake Geneva
France, French Republic - a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe
Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera, Swiss Confederation, Switzerland - a landlocked federal republic in central Europe


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The Carfry nephew, it turned out, had been threatened with consumption, and had had to leave Harrow for Switzerland, where he had spent two years in the milder air of Lake Leman.
The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context
Yes, a fortnight since, and she died full of regret, which I could not chase from her mind; she kept repeating, even during the last night of her existence, 'Frances, you will be so lonely when I am gone, so friendless:' she wished too that she could have been buried in Switzerland, and it was I who persuaded her in her old age to leave the banks of Lake Leman, and to come, only as it seems to die, in this flat region of Flanders.
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