banded

[ban-did]

adjective

1. marked or fitted with a band or bands.

2. Architecture.,  (of a column, door architrave, etc.) having the regular flutings, moldings, or the like interrupted at regular intervals by projecting blocks or drums.

Other Word Forms

• interbanded adjective
• unbanded adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of banded¹

First recorded in 1480–90; band ² + -ed ²

Example Sentences

We banded under the flag of punk rock.

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Outside of the confines of the silver screen, we know that half the world banded together to make those grinning and ascendant fascists eat dirt.

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These sharks are neither monsters nor jokes, though at least one contestant finds the banded houndshark “freaking adorable … their little cat eyes, their subterminal mouth.”

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Scientists from eight research institutions had banded together with some private funding to, ambitiously, study the health effects of the fires over the course of a decade.

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“We are here because of people who faced outrageous obstacles and still banded together and said we shall overcome.”

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• homogeneous 
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