Word Type

Noun

Verb

Proper Noun

The word "pound" can be used as noun, verb and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

uk

Dbpedia Genre

open source

Derived Terms

800-pound gorilla 800-pound gorilla in the room Amsterdam pound Bristol pound Lob's pound Poundesque Poundian Poundland Poundlike Poundstone a pound to a penny an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure assay pound avoirdupois pound brown pound dog pound enough sense to pound sand into a rathole fish pound foot-pound foot-pound-second full-pound geepound green pound grey pound ground and pound half-pound impound in for a penny, in for a pound kilopound lobster pound metric pound multipound pack on the pounds penny wise and pound foolish penny-wise and pound-foolish petropound pile on the pounds pinfold pink pound pound Scots pound a beat pound cake pound coin pound dirt pound down pound for pound pound of flesh pound out pound party pound puller pound salt pound sand pound sand into a rathole pound shop pound sign pound the pavement pound the table pound town pound up pound-foolish pound-for-pound pound-force pound-mass poundable poundage poundal poundcake pounder pounding poundkeeper poundless poundmaker poundman poundmaster poundworth pulse-pounding quarter-pound ship-pound shorepound sound as a pound take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves take to pound town ten pound Pom ten pound tourist ten-pound tourist tenpounder third-pound troy pound

Etymologically Related To

poun pown

Context

baseball engineering slang us vulgar

Has Property

warm

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

British monetary unit Cypriot monetary unit Egyptian monetary unit Irish monetary unit Lebanese monetary unit Sudanese monetary unit Syrian monetary unit avoirdupois unit blow break up confine constrain enclosure force unit fragment fragmentise fragmentize hit hold move partition partition off restrain symbol thrust walk

Type Of (IsA)

animal prison avoirdupois unit currency enclosure force unit software unit of measure of weight

Manner Of

break up partition restrain

Part Of

quarter stone

Related Terms

Poundstone bang crown farthing florin guinea pence penny shilling sovereign sterling

Related Terms

abandon american american weight animal animal shelter apothecary pound avoirdupois bang beat blow british british currency british dollar british money canal crown crush currency dependency detention dollar england english english currency fishing hard hash illegal impound jarring lb lock mass measurement money net noise octothorpe ounces pence penetrate pitch pound force pound sterling pulverize repeated sexual sixteen sixteen ounces stray strike throb troy pound troy weight unit united states vigour wager wander weight weight measurement weight unit

Similar Terms

beat impound pound up

Synonym Network

beat british pound crush cypriot pound egyptian pound ezra loomis pound hammer impound imprison irish pound lebanese pound lumber pound sign pulverize ram sudanese pound syrian pound thump

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.