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4-letter words (1 found)

BOND,

3-letter words (6 found)

BOD,BON,DOB,DON,NOB,NOD,

2-letter words (6 found)

BO,DO,NO,OB,OD,ON,

You can make 13 words from bond according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of bond

bond obnd bnod nbod onbd nobd bodn obdn bdon dbon odbn dobn bndo nbdo bdno dbno ndbo dnbo ondb nodb odnb donb ndob dnob

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Definitions and meaning of bond

bond

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /bɑnd/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɒnd/
  • Rhymes: -ɒnd

Etymology 1

From Middle English bond, a variant of band, from Old English beand, bænd, bend (“bond, chain, fetter, band, ribbon, ornament, chaplet, crown”), from Proto-Germanic *bandaz, *bandiz (“band, fetter”). Cognate with Dutch band, German Band, Swedish band. Doublet of Bund. Related to bind.

Noun

bond (countable and uncountable, plural bonds)

  1. (law) Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.
  2. (finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
  3. A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond.
  4. (often in the plural) A physical connection which binds, a band.
  5. An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.
    • 1792, Edmund Burke, a letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe on the subject of the Roman Catholics of Ireland
      a people with whom I have no tie but the common bond of mankind.
  6. Moral or political duty or obligation.
  7. (chemistry) A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
  8. A binding agreement, a covenant.
  9. (uncountable) The state of being stored in a bonded warehouse
    Liquor bottled in bond
  10. (law) A bail bond.
  11. Bond paper.
  12. Any constraining or cementing force or material.
  13. (construction) In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength.
    Synonym: bondwork
  14. (Scotland) A mortgage.
  15. (railways) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bonden.

Verb

bond (third-person singular simple present bonds, present participle bonding, simple past and past participle bonded)

  1. (transitive) To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
  2. (transitive) To cause to adhere (one material with another).
  3. (transitive, chemistry) To form a chemical compound with.
  4. (transitive) To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
  5. To form a friendship or emotional connection.
  6. (transitive) To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid.
  7. (transitive, construction) To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
  8. (transitive, electricity) To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
  9. To bail out by means of a bail bond.
    • 1877, Report No. 704 of proceedings In the Senate of the United States, 44th Congress, 2nd Session, page 642:
      In the August election of 1874 I bonded out of jail eighteen colored men that had been in there, and there has not one of them been tried yet, and they never will be.
Synonyms
  • (to cause to adhere): cling, stick; see also Thesaurus:adhere
Derived terms
  • bondability
  • bondable
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English bonde (“peasant, servant, bondman”), from Old English bōnda, būnda (“householder, freeman, plebeian, husband”), perhaps from Old Norse bóndi (“husbandman, householder”, literally “dweller”), or a contraction of Old English būend (“dweller, inhabitant”), both from Proto-Germanic *būwandz (“dweller”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, grow, appear”). See also bower, boor.

Noun

bond (plural bonds)

  1. A peasant; churl.
  2. A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.

Adjective

bond (comparative more bond, superlative most bond)

  1. Subject to the tenure called bondage.
  2. In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.
  3. Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.
Derived terms
  • Bond
  • bondage
  • bondfolk
  • bondland
  • bondly
  • bondmaid
  • bondman, bondsman
  • bondservant
  • bond-service
  • bond-slave
  • bond-tenant
  • bondwoman, bondswoman

Related terms

  • boor
  • bower

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔnt/
  • Hyphenation: bond
  • Rhymes: -ɔnt
  • Homophone: bont

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bund. The word could also be neuter until the 19th century, when it became increasingly common under the influence of German Bund.

Noun

bond m (plural bonden, diminutive bondje n)

  1. society, fellowship
    Synonym: verbond
  2. union, association, guild
    vakbond - trade union
  3. coalition, alliance, league
    Volkenbond - League of Nations
  4. covenant, agreement
  5. (dated) bundle (set of objects packed or tied together)
Derived terms
  • bondsrepubliek
  • bondsstaat
  • Volkenbond
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: bond
  • → Caribbean Javanese: bon
  • → Papiamentu: bònt
  • → Sranan Tongo: bontu

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

bond

  1. singular past indicative of binden

French

Etymology

From bondir.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔ̃/
  • Homophones: bon, bons, bonds
  • Rhymes: -ɔ̃

Noun

bond m (plural bonds)

  1. jump, bound, leap
  2. bounce

Derived terms

  • faire faux bond
  • saisir la balle au bond

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

bond

  1. Alternative form of band

Source: wiktionary.org