osmund

¹

Also os·mun·da

[oz-muhnd, os-]

noun

1. any fern of the genus Osmunda, especially the royal fern.

osmund

²

[oz-muhnd, os-]

noun

1. a superior quality of iron, formerly used for fishhooks, arrowheads, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of osmund¹

1325–75; Middle English osmunde < Anglo-French osmunde, Old French osmonde < ?

Origin of osmund²

1250–1300; Middle English osmund, osmond < Middle Low German osemunt < Old Swedish osmunder < ?

Example Sentences

Historian Osmund Bopearachchi of the Paris-based French National Centre for Scientific Research highlights a key discovery - an iron sword from a burial site, made of ultra-high-carbon steel and dating to 13th–15th Century BC.

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Osmund Bartle Wordsworth — a great-great-nephew of English poet William Wordsworth — who was recently identified by DNA research, and given a funeral ceremony Tuesday, 105 years after he died.

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Farmington resident Javier Borunda and Shiprock resident Osmund Sam, both YCC members, reflected on the skate park’s completion after skateboarders arrived at the location.

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The teenager was attacked as she walked in a field at St Osmund's CE Middle School in Barnes Way, Dorchester, at about 21:20 GMT on 5 December.

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She was attacked at St Osmund's Middle School in Dorchester at about 21:20 GMT on Thursday.

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