Pond
nounA small, still body of water, often artificial, smaller than a lake.
How to spell pond
4 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce pond
What does pond mean?
- nounA small, still body of water, often artificial, smaller than a lake.
Pond in a sentence
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The ducks paddled across the village pond at dawn.
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They stocked the garden pond with goldfish and lilies.
Where does pond come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
The word 'pond' is a native English word that emerged in the Middle English period as a variant of 'pound', the term for an enclosure. The underlying idea is a body of water that has been confined or dammed, just as a pound confined stray animals. Both words trace back to Old English 'pund', meaning an enclosure, and the senses split over time so that 'pound' kept the meaning of a fenced holding area while 'pond' came to mean a small, still body of standing water. The short, simple spelling reflects its plain Germanic roots, with no silent letters or borrowed flourishes. It has meant a small lake or artificial pool since at least the 1200s.
How the word is built
- pond (variant of 'pound': an enclosure or dammed body of water)
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