pond
UK/pɒnd//pɑnd/
pond noun: an inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
Noun
pond (plural ponds)
- An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
- But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
- An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
Proper noun (1)
the pond
- Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean.
- I wonder how they do this on the other side of the pond.
- I haven’t been back home across the pond in twenty years.
Verb (1)
pond (third-person singular simple present ponds, present participle ponding, simple past and past participle ponded)
- To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
- 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.2004, Calvin W. Rose, An Introduction to the Environmental Physics of Soil, Water and Watersheds, →ISBN, page 201
- To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
- To form a pond; to pool.
Verb (2)
pond (third-person singular simple present ponds, present participle ponding, simple past and past participle ponded)
- To ponder.
- Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.1579, Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Pond
the Pond
- Alternative letter-case form of the pond (“the Atlantic Ocean”).
- The legendary liner is retiring from transatlantic sailing after 33 years of crossing the Pond between New York and Southampton, England.2002 October 13, Renee Vogel, “Queenly Succession”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2025
- The Pond, as it is dismissively known, is certainly in need of a revamp. Its waters have been despoiled and plundered to the brink of disaster – and in the case of the Grand Banks cod fishery, sent over that edge into deathly extinction.2010 October 8, Kevin Rushby, “Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester – review”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC...
Proper noun (3) capitalized: Pond
Pond (plural Ponds)
- A surname.
- "How do you know?" asked Mr Pond rather snappishly and in unusual irritation.1929, G. K. Chesterton, The Poet and the Lunatics
- Hi, I’m Max Pond. I’m an active mormon, or member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.2025 July 22, Max Pond, “What is Durfing? (Explained by a Mormon)”, in LDS Quotations, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2025
pond meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
pond in Hindi
- small lake
- तालाब tālāb, पोखर pokhar, पोखरा pokhrā, ताल tāl, तलैया talaiyā
- the Atlantic Ocean
- अन्ध महासागर andh mahāsāgar, अटलाण्टिक महासागर aṭlāṇṭik mahāsāgar, अटलांटिक महासागर aṭlāṇṭik mahāsāgar
pond in Tamil
- small lake
- குட்டை kuṭṭai, குளம் kuḷam
pond in Urdu
- small lake
- تالاب tālāb, حَوض hauz, پوکَھر pokhar
pond in Bengali
- small lake
- পুকুর pukur
More languagesFewer languages
- pond in Telugu
- చెరువు
- pond in Malayalam
- കുളം kuḷaṁ
- pond in Kannada
- ಕೊಳ
- pond in Punjabi
- ਤਲਾਅ talāa
- pond in Gujarati
- તળાવ taḷāv
- pond in Odia
- ପୋଖରୀ, ପୁଷ୍କରିଣୀ
- pond in Sanskrit
- सरस् saras
- pond in Assamese
- পুখুৰী pukhuri
- pond in Nepali
- पोखरी
- pond in Pashto
- تالاب tālāb, خړيچ xṛič
- pond in Tagalog
- salog
- pond in Arabic
- بِرْكَة birka, غَدِير ḡadīr
- pond in Malay
- kolam
- pond in Indonesian
- kolam
- pond in Thai
- บ่อน้ำ bɔ̀ɔ-náam, สระน้ำ sà-náam, สระ sà
- pond in Vietnamese
- ao
- pond in Myanmar
- အင်း ang:, ကန် kan, အိုင် uing
Examples of pond in a sentence
- I heard a splash when the rock landed in the pond.
- To catch a big fish, use a hopper that jumps across the pond surface.
- I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.
Forms of pond
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ponds |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | ponds |
| present participle | ponding |
| past participle | ponded |
| past | ponded |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Ponds |
Origin of pond
From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound.
Clipping of ponder.
* As an English surname, from both senses of the noun pound. * As a German and north/Low German surname, Americanized from Pfund and Pund respectively, both related to the above.
Words formed from pond
- across the pond
- pondian
- Greenspond
- ball pond
- big fish in a little pond
- big fish in a small pond
- big-fish-little-pond effect
- Bryant Pond
- Chinese pond turtle
- detention pond
- dewpond
- drop in the pond
- dry pond
- duckpond
- duck pond
- ducks on the pond
- earth pond
- European pond terrapin
- European pond turtle
- fishpond
- fish-pond
- fish pond
- fog-pond
- hammer pond
- headpond
- herring pond
- horsepond
- infiltration pond
- Island Pond
- Japanese pond smelt
- Leftpondia
- Lewis Ponds
- lilypond
- Lower Lewis Ponds
- melt pond
- millpond
- mist-pond
- nursepond
- pondage
- pond apple
- pond cypress
- pond damselfly
- pondfish
- pondful
- pondhawk
- pond heron
- pond hockey
- pondless
- pondlet
- pondlife
- pond life
- pondlike
- pondlily
- pond lily
- pond liner
- pond loach
- pondman
- pondness
- pondscape
- pond scum
Phrases with pond
- sag pond
- Long Pond
- stew pond
- tide pond
- Fresh Pond
- pond snail
- Round Pond
- stock pond
- Taiye Pond
- tidal pond
- Indian Pond
- pond apples
31 more phrasesFewer phrases
- pond herons
- pond lilies
- pond liners
- pond slider
- pond snails
- pond turtle
- Taiyeh Pond
- Walden Pond
- pond loaches
- pond sliders
- pond turtles
- sliding pond
- T'aiyeh Pond
- Tai-yeh Pond
- Parson's Pond
- T'ai-yeh Pond
- pond cypresses
- retention pond
- pond damselflies
- yellow pond lily
- drops in the pond
- Indian pond heron
- Chinese pond heron
- yellow pond lilies
- Chinese pond herons
- Sussex pond pudding
- Turks Gut Long Pond
- Chinese pond turtles
- Sussex pond puddings
- European pond turtles
- European pond terrapins
Words that rhyme with pond
10 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about pond
- What does pond mean?
- Pond means an inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
- What is pond in Hindi?
- Pond in Hindi is तालाब (tālāb), पोखर (pokhar), पोखरा (pokhrā). See Pond meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is pond?
- Pond can be a noun, a proper noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce pond?
- Pond is pronounced /pɒnd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of pond?
- The plural of pond is ponds.
Words near pond in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pond (page history and authors); Pond (page history and authors); pond (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pond (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pond (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pond (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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