Definition of "pond" []

• A still body of water smaller than a lake. (noun)

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• "On a long drive back and forth from Clackamas Lake a body of water, which at best, merits the term pond I gave it another listen."
• "The Institute drove home just how small this pond is and made me very glad to be swimming in it."
• "In a very real way, the pond is a part of everybody's backyard, it's a very suburbanized bit of ocean, and the birds in the neighborhood are mostly suburban not ocean-going birds."