pond

[ pond ]

noun

1. a body of water smaller than a lake, sometimes artificially formed, as by damming a stream.
2. the pond, Informal. the Atlantic Ocean:

   American companies are finding business is different on the other side of the pond.

verb (used without object)

1. (especially of water) to collect into a pond or large puddle:

   to prevent rainwater from ponding on the roof.

pond

/ pɒnd /

noun

1. 1. a pool of still water, often artificially created
   2. ( in combination )

      a fishpond

pond

/ pŏnd /

1. An inland body of standing water that is smaller than a lake. Natural ponds form in small depressions and are usually shallow enough to support rooted vegetation across most or all of their areas.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pond¹

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English ponde, pande, akin to Old English pynding “dam,” gepyndan “to impound.” See pound ³

Word History and Origins

Origin of pond¹

C13 ponde enclosure; related to pound ³

Idioms and Phrases

see big fish in a small pond ; little frog in a big pond .

Example Sentences

There, settling ponds, bacteria, chemicals and machines make the wastes safe enough to go back into the environment.

From Science News For Students

Ground-penetrating radar now has revealed that these were no cattle ponds.

From Science News For Students

If GWAS are like fishing for a rare species in several large oceans, then the authors’ point is to focus on ponds—distributed across the world—which are small, but packed with those rare species.

From Singularity Hub 

Some are large ponds, and others are major lakes more than 270 feet deep.

From Quanta Magazine

The fish were supposed to help control the growth of algae in ponds on fish farms.

From Science News For Students

Just who is crazy enough to go swimming when the pond across the street has a layer of ice across the top?

From The Daily Beast

“I jumped over a few cars, almost turned it upside down in a pond and came out on top of all four tires,” she wrote in an email.

From The Daily Beast

Stampy, the biggest YouTube star this side of the pond, is also known as 23-year-old Joseph Garrett from Portsmouth.

From The Daily Beast

Then, a sharp-eyed woman pointed out a ladder leaning against a tree on the side of the pond.

From The Daily Beast

This was not the Impossible—the Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House—this was a walk above the LongHouse pond.

From The Daily Beast

A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.

From Project Gutenberg

It was no wonder that he felt quite at home in the duck-pond, which was made for web-footed folk.

From Project Gutenberg

On a rocky islet in the centre of a fresh water pond two miles in circuit they commenced erecting a fort and store house.

From Project Gutenberg

Under cover of this they crawled towards a large pond on which ducks were resting but by no means asleep.

From Project Gutenberg

In the autumn it occurs both in the Braye Pond and on the coast in the more sheltered parts.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• basin
• lagoon
• pool
• puddle