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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

  • (..) And that's not all. So, what was the original -acre farm has since been subdivided and sold off. There was another boy who drowned in a pond here. He lived in a house over here. And a woman who worked as a maid in a neighboring home, she committed suicide too. People who took her land. (..)
    2013 The Conjuring