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pod

/ˈpɒd//ˈpɑd/

pod noun: a seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod. Also the clipping of podcast.

Noun (1)

pod (plural pods)

  1. A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.
  2. A very small room or space for one person to inhabit, as in a capsule hotel.
  3. A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations; see escape pod.
    • Near-synonym: escape pod
    • cart, that is clouted and shod,
      cart ladder and wimble, with perser and pod1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […]...
    Synonyms:
    escape pod
  4. A nicotine cartridge.
  5. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A bag; a pouch.
  6. A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
  7. A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
  8. (collective) A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.
    • Thar she blows! I point to a pod of beluga whales we encountered in Cunningham Inlet off Somerset Island during our third and final season.1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 594
    Synonyms:
    gam
  9. A group of people who regularly interact.
  10. A set of commercials to be shown together.
    • These matrilineal groups associate with related families, who are probably sister lineages, to form pods.2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 8, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN
    • For many people forming pods last year, finding compatible people to group with was not a cost but a goal. Private companies that create educational software for pods report that people prefer to group with their friends in order to reduce the incentive to have social contacts outside of their pods.2021 October 1, Calder Katyal, “Schools Need to Undo the Damage of Pods”, in The Atlantic
  11. A small group (usually 3 or 4) of forwards working together as a group in open play.
  12. A lie-flat seat in business or first class.
  13. A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals.
    1. A straight channel or groove in the body of certain forms of, usually tapered, augers and boring-bits.

Verb

pod (third-person singular simple present pods, present participle podding, simple past and past participle podded)

  1. (intransitive) To bear or produce pods
    • Wherefore it was, that many ignorant Mardians, who had not pushed their investigations into the science of physiology, sagely divined, that the Tapparians must have podded into life like peas, instead of being otherwise indebted for their existence.1849, Herman Melville, Mardi, and a Voyage Thither
    • David looked seawards along the river. He stared, rubbed his eyes, and stared again. One of the rocks seemed to have podded into something swollen, black and smooth.1939, Leonard Alfred George Strong, The Open Sky, page 64
  2. (transitive) To remove peas from their case.
  3. (intransitive, transitive) To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
    • Thus the torpedoes will have to be stored internally or be podded into streamline containers.1955, Military Review - Volume 35, Issue 9, page 81
    • Lycoming is working on a twin T53 or T55 turboprop installation whereby two engines would be podded together to drive a single propeller.1957, Aviation Week - Volume 66, page 23
  4. (intransitive) To swell or fill.

Noun (2) capitalized: POD

POD (countable and uncountable, plural PODs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of print on demand.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism, logistics) Initialism of proof of delivery.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of plain old data.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of point of divergence.
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of place of death.
    • Vickers et al. found that at entry to the study, that is, when it was thought that cure was no longer possible, 98 (68%) of 164 families recorded a preference for home as POD.2013, Myra Bluebond-Langner, Emma Beecham, Bridget Candy, Richard Langner, Louise Jones, “Preferred place of death for children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions […]...

Also used as

pod is also the clipping of podcast.

pod is also the clipping of isopod.

pod meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

pod in Hindi

seed case
फली phalī

pod in Marathi

पोड

pod in Urdu

پوڈ

pod in Bengali

পোড
More languagesFewer languages
pod in Telugu
పాడ్, పోడ్
pod in Malayalam
പോഡ്
pod in Kannada
ಪಾಡ್, ಪೊಡ್
pod in Punjabi
ਪੋਡ, ਪੌਡ
pod in Gujarati
પોડ
pod in Odia
ପୋଡ୍, ପୋଡ
pod in Nepali
पोड
pod in Tagalog
supot ng buto
pod in Indonesian
polong
pod in Thai
ฝัก fàk

Examples of pod in a sentence

  • In the herbaceous border many flowers had seeded and podded; spears of them, brown, now rose up behind the mauve blur of the michaelmas daisies.2012, Deborah Moggach, You Must Be Sisters, →ISBN, page 219:
  • One, called An- 12BZ-2, was a single-point hose-and- drogue tanker similar to the RAF's Lockheed C-130K Hercules C.1K, except that the hose drum unit was podded, not built in.2004, Yefim Gordon, Dmitriy Komissarov, Antonov An-12 Cub, page 90:
  • This was to be achieved by increasing the number of Lotarev D-18T engines to 8 by podding the inboard pylons on each side to take two engines (see Fig. 7).2006, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society - Volume 59, page 130:

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Synonyms of pod

All synonyms of pod

Forms of pod

Noun
pluralpods
pluralPODs
Verb
third-person singular presentpods
present participlepodding
past participlepodded
pastpodded

Plural of pod: pods

Origin of pod

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), itself possibly from Old English pād (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paidō (“coat, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh₂- (“woolen clothes”). If so, then cognate with Old Saxon pēda (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 (paida, “mantle, skirt”), and perhaps Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”) and Ancient Greek βαίτη (baítē, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”).

Words formed from pod

Phrases with pod

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Words that rhyme with pod

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Questions about pod

What does pod mean?
Pod means a seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.
What is pod in Hindi?
Pod in Hindi is फली (phalī). See Pod meaning in Hindi.
How do you use pod in a sentence?
In the herbaceous border many flowers had seeded and podded; spears of them, brown, now rose up behind the mauve blur of the michaelmas daisies.
What part of speech is pod?
Pod can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce pod?
Pod is pronounced /ˈpɒd/ (UK).
What is the plural of pod?
The plural of pod is pods.

Words near pod in the dictionary

  1. poculents
  2. poculiform
  3. poculiforms
  4. poculum
  5. POCUS
  6. pod
  7. pod auger
  8. pod augers
  9. pod bit
  10. pod bits
  11. pod chute

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pod (page history and authors); POD (page history and authors); pod (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pod (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pod (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pod (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pod (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pod (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pod (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pod (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pod (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pod (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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