pond

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English

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Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: pŏnd, IPA: /pɒnd/, X-SAMPA: /pQnd/
• Rhymes: -ɒnd
• (US) enPR: pänd, IPA: /pɑnd/, X-SAMPA: /pAnd/

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Etymology

Variant of pound.

Noun

A pond

pond (plural ponds)

1. An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
2. (colloquial) The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond.

   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.

Derived terms

• across the pond
• ducks on the pond
• Leftpondia
• pondian
• Rightpondia

Translations

small lake

• Albanian: pellg (sq)
• Arabic: بركة (ar) (bírka) f, غَدير (ar) (ġadīr) m
• Aromanian: baltã (rup) f
• Belarusian: стаў (be) (staŭ) m
• Bulgarian: езерце (bg) (ézerce) n
• Cherokee: ᎥᏓᎵ (chr) (vdali)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 池塘 (cmn) (chítáng), 池 (cmn) (chí)

• Czech: rybník (cs) m
• Danish: dam (da) c
• Dutch: vijver (nl) m
• Esperanto: lageto (eo)
• Estonian: tiik (et)
• Faroese: tjørn (fo) f
• Finnish: lampi (fi), allas (fi)
• French: étang (fr) m, mare (fr) f
• Georgian: გუბე (ka) (gube)
• German: Teich (de) m
• Hebrew: אגם (he) (agam) m, בריכה (he) (brekha) f
• Hungarian: tavacska (hu)
• Icelandic: tjörn (is) f
• Indonesian: kolam (id)
• Interlingua: stagno (ia)
• Irish: linn (ga) f
• Italian: stagno (it) m
• Japanese: 池 (ja) (いけ, ike)
• Jèrriais: mathe f
• Korean: 못 (ko) (mot)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: گۆم

• Lao: ບຶງ (byng)
• Latvian: dīķis (lv) m
• Macedonian: езерце (mk) (ézerce) n, рибник (mk) (ríbnik) m (fish pond)
• Malay: kolam (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tjern (nb) n, dam (nb) m

  Nynorsk: tjern (nn) f, tjørn (nn) f, dam (nn) m

• Persian: آبگیر (fa) (âbgir), برکه (fa) (berke)
• Polish: staw (pl) m
• Portuguese: lagoa (pt) f, tanque (pt) m
• Romanian: baltă (ro) f
• Russian: пруд (ru) (prud) m, водоём (ru) (vodojóm) m, озерцо (ru) (ozercó) n
• Scottish Gaelic: linne (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: језерце, рибњак (fish pond), пруд, жабњак m (frog pond)

  Roman: jezerce, ribnjak (fish pond), prud, žabnjak m (frog pond)

• Shan: ၼွင် (nɔng1)
• Slovak: rybník (sk) m
• Slovene: ribnik (sl) m
• Spanish: charca m, estanque m, laguna f
• Swedish: damm (sv) c, tjärn (sv) c
• Tok Pisin: wara (tpi), raunwara (tpi)
• Turkish: göl (tr)
• Ukrainian: став (uk) (stav)
• Volapük: lulak
• Zulu: ichibi (zu) 5/6, isiziba (zu) 7/8

The Atlantic Ocean

• Czech: Atlantský oceán (cs) m
• Dutch: De Atlantische Oceaan
• Finnish: rapakko (fi)
• French: océan Atlantique (fr) m
• German: Der Große Teich

• Macedonian: бара (mk) (bára) f
• Norwegian: dammen (no)
• Slovene: luža (sl) f
• Spanish: (colloquial) charco (es) m

Verb

pond (third-person singular simple present ponds, present participle ponding, simple past and past participle ponded)

1. To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
   • 2004, Calvin W. Rose, An Introduction to the Environmental Physics of Soil, Water and Watersheds [1], ISBN 0521536790, page 201:

     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.

2. To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
3. (obsolete) To ponder.
   • Spenser

     Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.

Anagrams

• DNOP

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔnt
• IPA: /pɔnt/

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Noun

pond n (uncountable, diminutive pondje)

1. metric pound (500 grams)

Noun

pond c (plural ponden, diminutive pondje)

1. pound (currency)

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French

Verb

pond

1. third-person singular present of pondre