Pond

A pond is a body of water smaller than a lake. However the difference between a pond and a lake is subjective. Pond usually describes small bodies of water, generally smaller than one would require a boat to cross. Another definition is that a pond is a body of water where even its deepest areas are reached by sunlight. In some dialects of English, pond normally refers to small artificially created bodies of water. There are various regional names for naturally occurring ponds, e.g. in Scotland, one of the terms is lochan. The word "pond" is sometimes also used to refer to the Atlantic Ocean in the expression "across the pond" (a deliberate idiomatic understatement).
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