fishpond

See also: fish-pond and fish pond

English

An oriental-style fishpond

Alternative forms

• fish pond, fish-pond

Etymology

From Middle English fishpond; equivalent to fish +‎ pond.

Noun

fishpond (plural fishponds)

1. A freshwater pond stocked with fish; especially one formerly attached to a monastery etc as a source of food.
   • 1987 January 18, Paula Deitz, “ISLAND LIVING, ENGLISH STYLE”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Constructed of hard flint stone, which came as ballast from England and is now painted coral white, the house has a fishpond, or catchment, roof, dating from 1788, to collect rainwater.

   • 1990 April 1, Pete Dunne, “IN THE NATURAL STATE”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     Incarcerated in earth-filled boxes, the hapless annelids face execution in the morning. Death by immersion in fishponds, death by cruel hooks.

Translations

freshwater pond stocked with fish

• Afrikaans: visvywer
• Albanian: amull (sq) m
• Belarusian: са́жалка f (sážalka)
• Bulgarian: рибарник m (ribarnik)
• Catalan: piscina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 魚池／鱼池 (zh) (yúchí)

• Classical Nahuatl: michācaxitl, michāmanalli
• Czech: rybník (cs) m
• Dutch: visvijver (nl) m
• French: vivier (fr) m
• German: Fischteich (de) m
• Hungarian: halastó (hu)
• Irish: dabhach éisc f
• Italian: peschiera (it) f
• Korean: 양어지 (yang'eoji)
• Latin: piscīna f
• Polish: staw rybny m, rybnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: piscina (pt) f
• Romanian: heleșteu (ro) n
• Russian: садо́к (ru) m (sadók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ри̑бња̄к m

  Roman: rȋbnjāk (sh) m

• Spanish: piscina (es) f
• Tagalog: paisdaan
• Ukrainian: са́жалка f (sážalka)

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