{
    "term": "pond",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "image": "data/images/co/countryside.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a small area of still water, especially one that is artificial",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a fish pond"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She swam across the pond."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Carters had a pond in their back yard."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The pond is drained every year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The ponds are fully stocked with rainbow trout."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are goldfish in the pond."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were some ducks swimming on the pond."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Geography", "Gardens"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "large", "little"],
                "verb + pond": ["build", "construct", "dig"],
                "pond + noun": ["life", "water"],
                "preposition": [
                    "across a/​the pond",
                    "in a/​the pond",
                    "into a/​the pond"
                ],
                "phrases": ["the bottom, edge, middle, surface, etc. of a pond"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the Atlantic Ocean",
            "sensetop": "across the pond",
            "labels": "(informal, humorous)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He's relatively unknown on this side of the pond."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Critics across the pond have been queuing up to heap praise on the movie.",
                    "contextForm": "across the pond"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an important person (in a small community)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pɒnd/",
                "audio": "po/pond/pond__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/pɑːnd/",
                "audio": "po/pond/pond__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: alteration of pound ‘a place where stray animals are kept’; commonly used in dialect in the same sense."
}