pond

Plural: ponds

Noun

• a small lake
  • "the pond was too small for sailing"
• An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
• An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
• Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean.

Verb

Verb Forms: ponded, ponding, ponds

• To collect water into a small body, forming a pond.
• To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
• To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
• To form a pond; to pool.
• To ponder.

Examples

• 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 rain began to pond in the low-lying squares of the Scrabble board, much like his opponent’s tears.

Synonyms

pool

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