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7-letter words (1 found)

ABANDON,

5-letter words (3 found)

ABAND,BANDA,DONNA,

4-letter words (15 found)

ANAN,ANNA,ANNO,ANOA,ANON,BAND,BONA,BOND,DOAB,DONA,NAAN,NADA,NANA,NANO,NONA,

3-letter words (24 found)

ABA,ABO,ADO,ANA,AND,ANN,BAA,BAD,BAN,BAO,BOA,BOD,BON,DAB,DAN,DOB,DON,NAB,NAN,NOB,NOD,NON,OBA,ODA,

2-letter words (13 found)

AA,AB,AD,AN,BA,BO,DA,DO,NA,NO,OB,OD,ON,

You can make 56 words from abandon according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of abandon

abandon

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈbæn.dən/
  • Hyphenation: aban‧don

Etymology 1

  • From Middle English abandounen, from Old French abandoner, formed from a (“at, to”) + bandon (“jurisdiction, control”), from Late Latin bannum (“proclamation”), bannus, bandum, from Frankish *ban, *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, command”) (compare English ban), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”). See also ban, banal.
  • Displaced Middle English forleten (“to abandon”), from Old English forlǣtan, anforlǣtan; see forlet; and Middle English forleven (“to leave behind, abandon”), from Old English forlǣfan; see forleave.

Verb

abandon (third-person singular simple present abandons, present participle abandoning, simple past and past participle abandoned)

  1. (transitive) To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
  2. (transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
  3. (transitive) To leave behind; to desert, as in a ship, a position, or a person, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility. [First attested in the late 15th century.]
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 16th century.]
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.]
  6. (transitive) To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
  7. (transitive) To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss.
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Etymology 2

  • From French, from Old French abandon, from Old French abondonner.

Noun

abandon (countable and uncountable, plural abandons)

  1. A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. [Early 19th century.] (Now especially in the phrase with abandon.)
    with gay abandon, with wild abandon
    Synonyms: wantonness, unrestraint, libertinism, abandonment, profligacy, unconstraint
  2. (obsolete) Abandonment; relinquishment.
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French

Etymology

From Old French (mettre) a bandon (“to deliver”, literally “to place in someone's power”). Gamillscheg suggests a derivation from Old French a ban donner, but the Trésor de la langue française considers this unlikely, as the phrase is not attested.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.bɑ̃.dɔ̃/
  • Rhymes: -ɔ̃

Noun

abandon m (plural abandons)

  1. surrender; desertion; withdrawal
    abandon scolaire ― the action of dropping out of school
    abandon de poste ― desertion of one's post
  2. abandonment, abandoning
    faire l’abandon de quelque chose ― to give something up
    tour d’abandon ― foundling wheel
  3. state of neglect
    être à l’abandon ― to be in a state of complete neglect
    laisser à l’abandon ― to abandon; to allo to fall into decay;
  4. (literary) abandon, unrestraint (yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint)

Derived terms

  • abandonner

Descendants

  • Norwegian Bokmål: abandon

Further reading

  • “abandon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Friulian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

abandon m (plural abandons)

  1. abandonment

References

  • ARLEF
  • Dizionari Furlan Talian

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • abandoun, abaundun

Etymology

From Old French abandon.

Adverb

abandon (not comparable)

  1. Freely; entirely.

References

  • “abandǒun, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French abandon (“surrender, abandonment”), from Old French mettre a bandon (“to deliver, place at someone's disposition”), last part from Frankish *ban, *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, command, summon, ban”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak, say”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /abaŋˈdɔŋ/, /abanˈdɔŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔŋ
  • Hyphenation: a‧ban‧don

Noun

abandon m (definite singular abandonen, indefinite plural abandoner, definite plural abandonene)

  1. (law) the right to, under certain circumstances, waive ownership of an insured ship or cargo to the insurer and claim compensation for total loss
  2. (obsolete) indifference

Derived terms

References

  • “abandon” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French abandon. First attested in 1830.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈban.dɔn/
  • Rhymes: -andɔn
  • Syllabification: a‧ban‧don

Noun

abandon m inan

  1. (law, nautical) legal waiving of rights to one's ship that has lost trade value (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
    zgłoszenie abandonu ― registration of abandonment of one's ship

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References

Further reading

  • abandon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • abandon in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • абандон (abandon) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from French abandon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.banˈdon/
  • Rhymes: -on
  • Hyphenation: a‧ban‧don

Noun

abandon n (plural abandonuri)

  1. abandonment
  2. renouncement

Declension

Related terms

  • abandona

Source: wiktionary.org