pound – English noun declension

English noun forms of pound

Noun: pound
Singularpound
Pluralpounds

Sample Sentences

  • B-2 bombers are the only plane capable of carrying the Massive Ordinance Penetrator, which experts have highlighted as the only type of bomb potentially capable of destroying Iran’s underground Fordow nuclear facility. Each B-2 bomber is able to carry two of these “bunker buster” bombs, which weigh an impressive 30,000 pounds each. [2025 June 21, Thomas Bordeaux, Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, “US moves B-2 bombers as Trump weighs Iran options”, in CNN, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2025:]
  • Research shows that retaining even one or two pounds after giving birth can make problems more likely in a subsequent pregnancy, experts said, with women who have several children facing a "slippery slope" if they continue to gain weight each time. [2010 July 28, Rachel Williams, “Mothers who lose weight before further pregnancy ‘reduce risks’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2020:]
  • "Only a hundred and ninety-three pound," said Mr. Tulliver. "You've brought less o' late; but young fellows like to have their own way with their money. Though I didn't do as I liked before I was of age." He spoke with rather timid discontent. [1860, George Eliot, chapter 6, in The Mill on the Floss, book 5:]
  • For students in developing countries who can't get it any other way, or for students in the first world, who can but may choose not to. Pay thousands of pounds a year for your education? Or get it free online? [2012 November 11, Carole Cadwalladr, “Do online courses spell the end for the traditional university?”, in The Observer, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2020:]
  • He glanced back through what he had read and, while feeling his water flow quietly, he envied kindly Mr Beaufoy who had written it and received payment of three pounds, thirteen and six. [1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 4]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:]
  • the Rhode Island pound; the New Hampshire pound
  • He knocked out cans of warm cola at two pound fifty a time. [2010, Steven Field, Dusty's Fort, →ISBN, page 33:]
  • In the report of the Special Budget Commission certifying the estimates for 1874-75, it was announced on authority that the total amount of this debt did not exceed 14,725,000 Turkish pounds(liras), or £13,000,000, while the Special Commission for the verification of the budget for 1875-76 returned the total amount at 10,309,521 Turkish pounds(liras), or £8,935,000. [1878, w:Henry Hozier, The Russo-Turkish War: Including an Account of the Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Power and the History of the Eastern Question, page 61:]
  • Holonym: hashtag
  • To be connected, press pound.

Nouns inflected like pound

furlong, schnitzel, month, pound, bushel, acre, lion, mile, pair, year, yard,

Etymology

1. From Middle English pound, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), an early borrowing from Latin pondō (“by weight”), ablative form of pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull, stretch”).
2. Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish pund. Doublet of funt, pfund, pood, and punt. See: Middle English Nouns 'pound', Old English Nouns 'pund', Latin Nouns 'pondō', Dutch Nouns 'pond', German Nouns 'Pfund'.

Verbs referencing "pound"

Galician Nouns libra, Portuguese Nouns libra, Spanish Nouns libra, Danish Nouns pund, Finnish Nouns pauna, Dutch Nouns puin.