Lake Placid

American

noun

a town in northeaster New York, in the Adirondack Mountains: known as a resort town and sometimes host to the Winter Olympics.

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Like a humble laborer who, in the poet’s words, “hoisted hewn rock into heaven” but didn’t live to see his life’s work completed, the defenseman didn’t make the 1980 hockey team—his cathedral—that won gold in Lake Placid.

From The Wall Street Journal

Each Olympic sport has had its iconic American triumphs too: Who can forget the 1992 basketball “Dream Team” in Barcelona, or the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” in Lake Placid?

From Los Angeles Times

The Americans won the men's Olympic ice hockey gold since the 'Miracle on Ice' victory over the Soviet Union at the 1980 Lake Placid Games.

From Barron's

These were Olympians born long, long after Lake Placid—many were babies and toddlers when the Kurt Russell movie came out.

From The Wall Street Journal

Suddenly, it was over, and the U.S. men joined their golden forebears from Lake Placid and Squaw Valley 1960.

From The Wall Street Journal

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023