Pond

Quick meaning: Pond is a noun meaning An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.

Meaning

An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.

More Meanings

1. An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
2. (informal) Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean.
3. (transitive) To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
4. (transitive) To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
5. (intransitive) To form a pond; to pool.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To ponder.

Example Sentences

Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• ponds
• ponding
• ponded

Synonyms for pond

Depending on context, synonyms include pool.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pool, mere, catchment, drainage, watershed, lake.

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