Pond

Pronunciation

• UK enPR: pŏnd, IPA: /pÉ’nd/
• Rhymes: -É’nd
• US enPR: pänd, IPA: /pÉ‘nd/

Origin

Variant of pound.

Noun

1. An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
2. (colloquial) The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond.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.

Derived terms

• across the pond
• ducks on the pond
• Leftpondia
• pondian
• Rightpondia

Full definition of pond

Verb

1. To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
• 2004, Calvin W. Rose, An Introduction to the Environmental Physics of Soil, Water and Watersheds http://books.google.com/books?id=TxCQ-DaSIwUC, ISBN 0521536790, page 201:The rate of fall of the surface of water ponded over the soil within the ring gives a measure of the infiltration rate for the particular enclosed area.
2. To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
3. (obsolete) To ponder.
• SpenserPleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.

Anagrams

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