pod – English noun declension

English noun forms of pod

Noun: pod
Singularpod
Pluralpods

Sample Sentences

  • Near-synonym: escape pod
  • cart, that is clouted and shod,
  • cart ladder and wimble, with perser and pod [1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:]
  • Thar she blows! I point to a pod of beluga whales we encountered in Cunningham Inlet off Somerset Island during our third and final season. [1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 594:]
  • These matrilineal groups associate with related families, who are probably sister lineages, to form pods. [2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 8, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:]
  • For many people forming pods last year, finding compatible people to group with was not a cost but a goal. Private companies that create educational software for pods report that people prefer to group with their friends in order to reduce the incentive to have social contacts outside of their pods. [2021 October 1, Calder Katyal, “Schools Need to Undo the Damage of Pods”, in The Atlantic:]
  • I'd started shopping at 2 a.m., and the pod I listened to while shopping was almost through, so had to be 3 damn near. [2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN:]
  • These ads are shown during commercial breaks when there is no game action. Usually, multiple spots are grouped into a pod of commercials. [2014, Lisa P. Masteralexis, Carol A. Barr, Mary Hums, Principles and Practice of Sport Management, page 448:]

Etymology

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”). See: Gothic Nouns '𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰'.

Verbs referencing "pod"

English Nouns pudding, Dutch Nouns puit, Swedish Nouns podd.