pond

CEFRA2

/pɒnd/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A small area of still water, usually smaller than a lake.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean.

Examples

  • There used to be a big pond around here.

  • There used to be a pond around here.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
3

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.

  2. An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.

More examples

In context

  • I haven’t been back home across the pond in twenty years.

  • I wonder how they do this on the other side of the pond.

  • The rate of fall of the surface of water ponded over the soil within the ring gives a measure of the infiltration rate for the particular enclosed area.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound.