pond

Noun

A pond

pond (plural ponds)

1. An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:

     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 to a monochrome by the moon.

2. An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
3. (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.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) 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^{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. (transitive) To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
3. (intransitive) To form a pond; to pool.

Verb

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

1. (transitive, obsolete) To ponder.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Spenser, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.

Derived terms

• apothekerspond