pod

Meaning

Noun

1. A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.
2. A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations.
3. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A bag; a pouch.
4. (collective) A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.
5. (broadly) A group of people who regularly interact.
6. A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
7. A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
8. A very small room or space for one person to inhabit, as in a capsule hotel.
9. A nicotine cartridge.
10. A lie-flat business or first class seat.
11. A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals.
12. A straight channel or groove in the body of certain forms of, usually tapered, augers and boring-bits.
13. (Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal) Clipping of podcast.
14. A set of commercials to be shown together.
15. In rugby union, a small group (usually 3 or 4) of forwards working together as a group in open play.
16. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal) Clipping of isopod.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To bear or produce pods
2. (transitive) To remove peas from their case.
3. (intransitive, transitive) To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
4. (intransitive) To swell or fill.

Synonyms

shell

🐚

legume

husk

hull

peel

seedpod

skin

rind

school

🏫

seedcase

replum

shuck

cod

flock

swarm

pride

cloud

☁️

fuel pod

capsule

shoal

circle

⭕

poke

pare

pack

scabbard

horde

mob

bevy

drove

exaltation

gaggle

nacelle

soap

🧼

flight

✈️

herd

bulb

💡

building

battery

🔋

bud

brood

bash

balcony

broccoli

🥦

brace

barren

clutter

boom

💥

clustering

cluster

boo

Translations

Schote

gousse

vaina

cosse

Hülse

vagem

baccello

fuseau

peul

🫛

tavella

peulen

Schale

Schule

🏫

buccia

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɒd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: *pod

Inherited from Old English: pād

Cognate with Old Saxon: pēda

Cognate with German: -

Cognate with Gothic: 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰

Cognate with Albanian: petk

Cognate with Ancient Greek: βαίτη

In summary

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), itself possibly from Old English pād (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paidō (“coat, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh₂- (“woolen clothes”). If so, then cognate with Old Saxon pēda (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 (paida, “mantle, skirt”), and perhaps Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”) and Ancient Greek βαίτη (baítē, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”).