pond
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) enPR: pŏnd, IPA(key): /pɒnd/
- Rhymes: -ɒnd
- (US) enPR: pänd, IPA(key): /pɑnd/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: pawned (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound.
NounEdit
pond (plural ponds)
- An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
- An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
- (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.
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VerbEdit
pond (third-person singular simple present ponds, present participle ponding, simple past and past participle ponded)
- (transitive) To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
- (transitive) To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
- (intransitive) To form a pond; to pool.
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
pond (third-person singular simple present ponds, present participle ponding, simple past and past participle ponded)
- (transitive, obsolete) To ponder.
- 1579, Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:
- Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.
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EtymologyEdit
From Dutch pond, from Middle Dutch pont, pond, from Old Dutch punt, from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), borrowed from Latin pondō.
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NounEdit
pond (plural ponds)
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Dutch pont, pond, from Old Dutch punt, from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), borrowed from Latin pondō.
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NounEdit
pond n (plural ponden, diminutive pondje n)
- unit of mass, often broadly similar to 500 grams
- metric pound (500 grams)
- Hij gaat een pondje kaas kopen op de markt. ― He is going to buy a pound (500 g) of cheese at the market.
- (imperial units) pound (453.6 grams)
- (historical) pound, any of several local units, with a range between 420 and 500 grammes, divided into 16 historical ounces
- (historical, Dutch metric system) kilogram
- metric pound (500 grams)
- one of several monetary units
- British pound, pound sterling (currency)
- Ik heb nog wat ponden van mijn vakantie in Wales. ― I still have a few pounds left over from my holiday in Wales.
- Egyptian pound
- (historical) Flemish pound
- British pound, pound sterling (currency)
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