pond

SayPOND/pɑnd/UK/pɒnd/

6 meanings of pond

1
nouncountable
A small inland body of standing water, whether natural or made by people, that is smaller than a lake.
A heron stood motionless at the edge of the pond.
The farmer dug a pond to collect rainwater for the cattle.
Similarpool
2
nouncolloquial
The Atlantic Ocean treated informally as a narrow divide between Europe and North America, chiefly in the expression "across the pond."
She's been working on the other side of the pond for nearly a decade.
Plenty of British comedies have found big audiences across the pond.
SimilarAtlantic
3
verbintransitive
To gather and remain as a body of standing water; to pool.
After heavy rain, water ponds in the low corner of the field.
Meltwater began to pond against the frozen ground.
Similarpool, collect, accumulate, gather
Oppositedrain
4
verbtransitive
To hold back flowing water so that it escapes only through evaporation or seepage, as a dam does.
Engineers ponded the runoff behind a low earthen barrier.
The settlers chose to pond the brook so the water would not drain away.
Similarimpound, dam
5
verbtransitive
To collect water into a pond by damming it; to turn a flow of water into a standing pool.
Beavers ponded the stream until a wide pool formed behind their dam.
Villagers learned to pond the seasonal flow for irrigation.
Similardam, impound
6
nouncountable
An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs instead of by a river.
Geologists noted that the pond was spring-fed and connected to no stream.
A deep spring keeps the pond full even during the driest summers.
Similarpool

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Origin

From Middle English pond or ponde ("pond, pool"), probably from an Old English form seen in place names, a variant of a word meaning "enclosure." It is a doublet of pound.