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• bund
  bund

  noun

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

  noun

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

bund

¹ American  

[buhnd] / bʌnd /

noun

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

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Bund ² American  

[boond, buhnd, boont] / bʊnd, bʌnd, bʊnt /

noun

• Bunds,
  plural
• Bünde
  plural

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

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

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Bund ¹ British  

/ bʊnd, bʊnt /

noun

1. (sometimes not capital) a federation or league

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

3. an organization of socialist Jewish workers in Russia founded in 1897

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

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bund ² British  

/ bʌnd /

noun

1. an embankment; dyke

2. an embanked road or quay

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• Bundist
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• Bunds
  plural
• Bünde
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of bund¹

1805–15; < Hindi band < Persian: dam, levee; akin to bind, bond ¹

Origin of Bund²

< German: association, league

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Example Sentences

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bund Bund Bunds

The 10-year German bund, at about 3.26%, has returned to its level of 2011.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Germany’s 10-year bund yield, a proxy for risk-free rates in the eurozone, was just shy of 3%, the highest since 2007.

From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026

Fairhurst suggest this earth bund would need a fence on top to stop people getting in to the rock trap area.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025

Germany's bund yield, the euro zone benchmark, rose 1.7 bps to 2.754% after seven sessions of declines.

From Reuters ● Nov. 6, 2023

Ralph edged forward, feeling his way over the uneven surface as though he were bund.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

Freely traded and considered virtually risk-free, the Bund has a haven status that is "not being called into question", Frederik Ducrozet of the Swiss bank Pictet told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

The 10-year German Bund yield fell 2.3 basis points to 3.435%, while French 10-year OAT yields lost 1.6 basis points to 4.919%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Ten-year Treasury and German Bund yields fell to multiweek lows on Thursday as the impact of higher-than-expected U.S. inflation data faded.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

In the eurozone, the German 10-year Bund yield fell 5.4 basis points to 3.452%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

He knew the number of German Americans living in the United States and had compiled numerous charts, statistics, and personal information, such as their occupations and if they were Bund members.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

Nevertheless, "the situation is very different from the sovereign debt crisis of the early 2010s", he added, when investors selling Italian or Spanish debt almost automatically bought Bunds.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

The spread between the 10-year yield on French OATs and German Bunds amounts to the extra payment investors demand to hold French instead of German bonds.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Investors are abandoning French government bonds for quality in German Bunds, which is magnifying the spread of the two wider.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Within government bonds, Zeng favors German Bunds at the short end and U.K.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Germany will auction 750 million euros in February 2033- and 750 million euros in May 2041-dated green Bunds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

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