POND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pond mean? 

• POND (noun)
  The noun POND has 1 sense:

1. a small lake

  Familiarity information: POND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small lake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

pond; pool

Context example:

the pond was too small for sailing

Hypernyms ("pond" is a kind of...):

lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pond"):

fishpond (a freshwater pond with fish)

horsepond (a pond for watering horses)

mere (a small pond of standing water)

millpond (a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel)

swimming hole (a small body of water (usually in a creek) that is deep enough to use for swimming)

water hole (a natural hole or hollow containing water)

 Context examples 

Now, how on earth could you know that the stolen silver was at the bottom of that pond?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Few like me, I imagine, in the university pond.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And how came it in the pond?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Imagine ponds dotting the floor of Gale Crater, the 100-mile-wide (150-kilometer-wide) ancient basin that Curiosity is exploring.

(NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds an Ancient Oasis on Mars, NASA)

Some of them ran away, the others he killed, and threw out into the fish-pond.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"However, if it becomes as covered in meltwater ponds very quickly as Larsen B was, it can collapse in a similar way."

(Reframing the dangers Antarctica's meltwater ponds pose to ice shelves and sea level, National Science Foundation)

These viruses are common in fresh water, such as lakes and ponds, but weren’t thought to infect humans or animals.

(Algal Virus Infects, Affects Humans, NIH)

Some are gone to the ponds, and some to the lime walk.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Two little rivers, or rather two swamps, emptied out into this pond, as you might call it; and the foliage round that part of the shore had a kind of poisonous brightness.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He searched little ponds for frogs and dug up the earth with his nails for worms, though he knew in spite that neither frogs nor worms existed so far north.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)