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pond

Definition

  • noun: an area of water that is surrounded by land and that is smaller than a lake
  • noun: a body of water usually smaller than a lake
  • verb: to block (as a stream) to create a pond
  • sometimes used with 'the' to refer informally or facetiously to the Atlantic Ocean

Examples

  • In school he was a 'big fish in a small pond', but once he moved to the city he was just another struggling actor.

  • They moved here from across 'the pond'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) NURSE: Doctor? I'll see you. PERSON : "As I walk along the stony shore... of the pond in my shirtsleeves..." PERSON : "...Amazon basin in the north, once an island sea..." PERSON : "The highest truth on the subject remains unsaid... (..)
    1998 City of Angels