Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake. · An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.
Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean.
To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam. · To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming. · To form a pond; to pool.
From Middle English pond, ponde (“pond, pool”), probably from Old English *pond, *pand (attested in placenames), a variant of *pund (“enclosure”). Doublet of pound.
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