: a body of water usually smaller than a lake
a fishing pond
—sometimes used with the to refer informally or facetiously to the Atlantic Ocean
ponded; ponding; ponds
: to block (something, such as a stream) to create a pond
: to collect in or form a pond
Examples of pond in a Sentence
Noun
They moved here from across the pond.
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Rory Doherty, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
This version of our doomed protagonist is introduced exiting a pond, with stones dropping from her dripping-wet dress — the abyss-adjacent qualities are already in full bloom.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
Shalom restricted access to the pond afterward, records show.
—Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
In Australia, roughly 12 million tonnes of coal ash are produced annually from power generation, with more than 400 million tonnes stored in large ponds.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
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Noun
In Hedda Gabler, Hedda walks to a private chamber and shoots herself, while the final seconds of Hedda show its protagonist tear herself from Brack’s grasp, flee across the lawn, fill up her pockets with stones to descend beneath the surface of their pond.
—Rory Doherty, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
This version of our doomed protagonist is introduced exiting a pond, with stones dropping from her dripping-wet dress — the abyss-adjacent qualities are already in full bloom.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
Shalom restricted access to the pond afterward, records show.
—Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
In Australia, roughly 12 million tonnes of coal ash are produced annually from power generation, with more than 400 million tonnes stored in large ponds.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Pond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pond. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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