pool
A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
Example
“the pools of Solomon”
Other meanings
Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
A kind of
- excavation
Kinds of pool
- swimming pool
- wading pool
- water jump
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "pōl".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pool” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.