pond

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond.

Verb

• 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.

Origin

• From Middle English pond, ponde, probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of pund. pound#Etymology_2, and pound.