pond
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pŏnd, IPA(key): /pɒnd/
- (General American) enPR: pänd, IPA(key): /pɑnd/
Audio (GA) (file) - Homophone: pawned (in accents with the cot–caught merger)
- Rhymes: -ɒnd
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound.
Noun edit
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.
- (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.
Derived terms edit
- across the pond
- ball pond
- big fish in a little pond
- big fish in a small pond
- detention pond
- drop in the pond
- dry pond
- duckpond
- ducks on the pond
- earth pond
- European pond terrapin
- European pond turtle
- fishpond
- fish-pond, fish pond
- hammer pond
- herring pond
- horsepond
- infiltration pond
- Leftpondia
- lilypond
- melt pond
- millpond
- nursepond
- pondage
- pond apple
- pond cypress
- pond damselfly
- pondfish
- pondful
- pondhawk
- pond heron
- pond hockey
- pondian
- pondless
- pondlet
- pond life
- pondlife
- pondlike
- pondlily
- pond lily
- pond liner
- pond loach
- pondness
- pondscape
- pond scum
- pondside
- pond-skater
- pond slider
- pond snail
- pondspice
- pond turtle
- pondward
- pondwards
- pondwater
- pondweed
- pondwort
- pondy
- retention pond
- Rightpondia
- sag pond
- sliding pond
- stewpond
- stew pond
- Sussex pond pudding
- yellow pond lily
- yellow pond-lily
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Verb edit
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 2 edit
Verb edit
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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Etymology edit
From Dutch pond, from Middle Dutch pont, pond, from Old Dutch punt, from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), borrowed from Latin pondō.
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
pond (plural ponds)
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch pont, pond, from Old Dutch punt, from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), borrowed from Latin pondō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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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