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pondlike en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English pond Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English pondlike From pond + -like.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Resembling a pond
    • Small streams are usually swift; large streams tend to be slower and often have deep, pondlike areas. 1974, Samuel Eddy, James Campbell Underhill, Northern Fishes, →ISBN, page 49:
    • Lake Nipigon covers nearly 1,900 square miles, but on a map it looks pondlike compared with the body of water it drains into: Lake Superior, the largest of the five Great Lakes, or as the Anishinaabe call it, Anishinaabewi-gichigami—the Anishinaabe’s Great Lake. December 2020, Tim Folger, “North America’s most valuable resource is at risk”, in National Geographic: