pond

noun · name · verbA1

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noun

Plural noun:

ponds

1.
An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
2.
An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.

name

name

the pond

1.
(informal)Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean.
I wonder how they do this on the other side of the pond.
I haven’t been back home across the pond in twenty years.

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verb

V_es/s

ponds

V_ing/Gerund

ponding

V_ed/pp

ponded

1.
(transitive)To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
2.
(transitive)To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
3.
(intransitive)To form a pond; to pool.
4.
(obsolete, transitive)To ponder.

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From Middle English pond, ponde (pond, pool), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (enclosure). pound.