Polder vs Ponder - What's the difference?
polder | ponder |
(geography) An area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes.
*1999 , (Philipp Blom), translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City , Vintage 2001, p. 43:
*:The patron saint of the Oude Kerk, Saint Nicolaas, the ‘water saint’, was also very popular, as he protected the sailors and those living on the polders from the dangers of the sea.
To wonder, to think of deeply.
To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly; to chew over, to mull over.
* Bible, Proverbs iv. 26
(obsolete) To weigh.
As a noun polder
is (geography) an area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes.As a verb ponder is
to wonder, to think of deeply.polder
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(en noun)ponder
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(en verb)- I have spent days pondering the meaning of life.
- Ponder the path of thy feet.