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fishpond

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A freshwater pond stocked with fish; especially one formerly attached to a monastery etc as a source of food.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

noun

Meaning 2

a freshwater pond with fish

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: pond, pool

History

Etymology

From Middle English fishpond; equivalent to fish + pond.

Across languages

Translations

33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: visvywer — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Albanian: amull — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Belarusian: са́жалка (sážalka) — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Bulgarian: рибарник (ribarnik) — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Catalan: piscina — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Chinese Mandarin: 魚池 /鱼池 (yúchí) — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Czech: rybník — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Dutch: visvijver — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Finnish: kalalammikko — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • French: vivier — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • German: Fischteich — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Hungarian: halastó — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Irish: dabhach éisc — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Italian: peschiera — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Korean: 양어지 (yang'eoji) — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Latin: piscīna — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Classical Nahuatl: michācaxitl — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Classical Nahuatl: michāmanalli — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Pannonian Rusyn: рибалов (ribalov) — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Polish: staw rybny — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Polish: rybnik — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Portuguese: piscina — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Romanian: heleșteu — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Russian: садо́к (sadók) — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Serbo-Croatian: ри̑бња̄к — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Serbo-Croatian: rȋbnjāk — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Spanish: piscina — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Spanish: estanque — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Spanish: nansa — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Tagalog: paisdaan — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Ottoman Turkish: لیوار (livar) — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Ottoman Turkish: بالقلوا (balıklava) — freshwater pond stocked with fish
  • Ukrainian: са́жалка (sážalka) — freshwater pond stocked with fish