bund

[ buhnd ]

/ bʌnd /

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noun (in Asian countries)

an embankment or an embanked quay, often providing a promenade.

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Origin of bund

1805–15; <Hindi band<Persian: dam, levee; akin to bind, bond¹

Words nearby bund

bunch light, bunch pink, bunchy, bunco, buncombe, bund, Bundaberg, Bundelkhand, Bundesrat, Bundestag, Bundeswehr

Other definitions for bund (2 of 2)

Bund

[ boond, buhnd; German boont ]

/ bʊnd, bʌnd; German bʊnt /

noun, plural Bunds, German Bün·de

[byn-duh]. /ˈbün də/.

a short form of “German-American Volksbund,” a pro-Nazi organization in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s.

(often lowercase) an alliance or league, especially a political society.

Origin of Bund

<German: association, league

OTHER WORDS FROM Bund

Bundist, noun

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How to use bund in a sentence

The Bund’s February 1939 rally at Madison Square Garden, for example, drew more than 20,000 enthusiastic supporters under banners that included swastikas and images of George Washington.
The long history of American Nazism — and why we can’t forget it today|Ronald Granieri, Susan MacNeal|July 13, 2021|Washington Post
As a regular tourist—a.k.a. someone not trying to cash in on China—stay on the Bund.
Gal With a Suitcase: Shanghai|Jolie Hunt|January 7, 2011|DAILY BEAST
A moment later and his eyes were straining after a figure that was fast disappearing up the bund.
The Honorable Percival|Alice Hegan Rice
A few minutes later they were walking down the Bund, with the cool night-air playing upon their fevered faces.
The Dealings of Captain Sharkey|A. Conan Doyle

Up and down the Bund they course, here at exporting, there at importing.
The Pacific Triangle|Sydney Greenbie
The "Rhine-Bund," therefore, was constructed just as France desired.
A History of Germany|Bayard Taylor
The utmost they would yield was to be united into a confederacy called the Bund, with a Diet meeting at Frankfurt.
Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century|Charles Morris

British Dictionary definitions for bund (1 of 2)

bund

/ (bʌnd) /

noun (in India and the Far East)

an embankment; dyke

an embanked road or quay

Word Origin for bund

C19: from Hindi band, from Persian; related to Sanskrit bandha band 1

British Dictionary definitions for bund (2 of 2)

Bund

/ (bʊnd, German bʊnt) /

noun plural Bunds or Bünde (German ˈbyndə)

(sometimes not capital) a federation or league

short for German American Bund, an organization of US Nazis and Nazi sympathizers in the 1930s and 1940s

an organization of socialist Jewish workers in Russia founded in 1897

the confederation of N German states, which existed from 1867–71

Word Origin for Bund

C19: German; related to band ², bind

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