pond

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small area of still water, smaller than a lake and often man-made.

   Ducks swam across the pond in the park.

2. 2
   verb

   To block water so that it collects and can only drain away slowly.

   Heavy rain ponded on the flat roof for days.

3. 3
   noun

   The Atlantic Ocean (informal, usually in "across the pond").

   My cousin lives across the pond in London.

* As an English surname, from both senses of the noun pound. * As a German and north/Low German surname, Americanized from Pfund and Pund respectively, both related to the above.

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