pond | |
1. n. An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake. | |
2. n. An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river. | |
3. n. (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. | |
4. v. To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam. | |
5. v. To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To form a pond; to pool. | |
7. v. (transitive, obsolete) To ponder. | |