- a small area of still water, especially one that is artificial
- a fish pond
Extra ExamplesTopics Geographyc1, Gardensc1- She swam across the pond.
- The Carters had a pond in their back yard.
- The pond is drained every year.
- The ponds are fully stocked with rainbow trout.
- There are goldfish in the pond.
- There were some ducks swimming on the pond.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- large
- little
- …
- build
- construct
- dig
- …
- life
- water
- across a/the pond
- in a/the pond
- into a/the pond
- …
- the bottom, edge, middle, surface, etc. of a pond
- (informal, humorous) the Atlantic Ocean
- He's relatively unknown on this side of the pond.
- across the pond Critics across the pond have been queuing up to heap praise on the movie.
Word OriginMiddle English: alteration of pound ‘a place where stray animals are kept’; commonly used in dialect in the same sense.
Idioms
See pond in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarya big fish (in a small pond)
- an important person (in a small community)
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