ponds
SayPONDZUS/pɑndz/UK/pɒndz/
- 1Plural of pond.
The estate's ornamental ponds were stocked with koi and water lilies.
Frogs spawn in the shallow ponds each spring.
Note
Nothing irregular happens in this plural, but the same spelling does double duty. Pond is also a verb, so ponds is what water does when it pools behind a dam or in a hollow (rain ponds on the flat roof). The informal Atlantic meaning stays behind in the singular phrase across the pond, so the plural always means actual bodies of standing water.
ponds is a form of pond
pond, noun: A small inland body of standing water, whether natural or made by people, that is smaller than a lake. Full entry
- Forms
- pondponds plural
- Spelling
- pond → ponds: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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