pool

Meaning

Noun

1. 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.
2. Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of swimming pool.
4. (broadly) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
5. (broadly) Any group of like things.
6. A small amount of liquid on a surface.
7. A localized glow of light.

Verb

To form a pool.

Verb

1. (transitive) To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of.
2. (intransitive) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.

Synonyms

pond

puddle

lake

swimming pool

tank

billiards

reservoir

basin

kitty

associate

join

well

swimming-bath

combine

snooker

come together

merge

marsh

blend

underwriting group

syndicate

pocket billiards

waterhole

mere

bowl

consortium

gather

collect

water basin

swimming-pool

tub

cistern

swamp

dam

water hole

pelvis

lagoon

gully

joint venture

mar

bring together

complexion

complect

comfit

bind

backwater

colligate

fusion

fuse

coalesce

Translations

piscina

piscina

mare

piscine

piscina

étang

estanque

pozza

Teich

pozzanghera

Tümpel

flaque

stagno

Becken

cagnotte

Pronounced as (IPA)

/puːl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: pool

Inherited from Old English: pōl

Cognate with Scots: puil

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Pol

Cognate with Western Frisian: poel

Cognate with Dutch: poel

Cognate with German: Pfuhl

Cognate with Danish: pøl

Cognate with Swedish: pöl

Cognate with Icelandic: pollur

Cognate with Lithuanian: bala

Cognate with Latvian: bala

Cognate with Russian: боло́то

In summary

From Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Old English pōl (“pool”), from Proto-West Germanic pōl, from Proto-Germanic *pōlaz (“pool, pond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bōlos (“bog, marsh”).
Cognate with Scots puil (“pool”), Saterland Frisian Pol (“pool”), West Frisian poel (“pool”), Dutch poel (“pool”), German Low German Pohl, Pool, Pul (“pool”), German Pfuhl (“quagmire, mudhole”), Danish pøl (“puddle”), Swedish pöl (“puddle, pool”), Icelandic pollur (“puddle”), Lithuanian bala (“puddle”), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression”), Russian боло́то (bolóto, “swamp, bog, marsh”).
For the meaning development to a supply of resources compare typologically Russian пруд пруди́ (prud prudí) (< пруд (prud)).

Sentences

There is also an outdoor swimming pool in the constituent community of Rottenberg.