Definitions for band

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IPA: /bænd/

Band is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in band (abdn).

Definitions for band

noun

1. a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop:
2. Music. a group of instrumentalists playing music of a specialized type: a musical group, usually employing brass, percussion, and often woodwind instruments, that plays especially for marching or open-air performances. big band. dance band.
3. a division of a nomadic tribe; a group of individuals who move and camp together and subsist by hunting and gathering.
4. a group of persons living outside the law:
5. a thin, flat strip of some material for binding, confining, trimming, protecting, etc.:
6. a fillet, belt, or strap:
7. a stripe, as of color or decorative work.
8. a strip of paper or other material serving as a label:
9. a plain or simply styled ring, without mounted gems or the like:
10. (on a long-playing phonograph record) one of a set of grooves in which sound has been recorded, separated from an adjacent set or sets by grooves without recorded sound.
11. bands, Geneva bands.
12. a flat collar commonly worn by men and women in the 17th century in western Europe.
13. Also called frequency band, wave band. Radio and Television. a specific range of frequencies, especially a set of radio frequencies, as HF, VHF, and UHF.
14. Also called energy band. Physics. a closely spaced group of energy levels of electrons in a solid.
15. Computers. one or more tracks or channels on a magnetic drum.
16. Dentistry. a strip of thin metal encircling a tooth, usually for anchoring an orthodontic apparatus.
17. Anatomy, Zoology. a ribbonlike or cordlike structure encircling, binding, or connecting a part or parts.
18. (in handbound books) one of several cords of hemp or flax handsewn across the back of the collated signatures of a book to provide added strength.
19. Usually, bands. articles for binding the person or the limbs; shackles; manacles; fetters.
20. an obligation; bond:

Idioms

1. to beat the band, Informal. energetically; abundantly:

plural noun

1. two bands or pendent stripes made usually of white lawn and worn at the throat as part of clerical garb, originally by the Swiss Calvinist clergy.

verb (used with object)

1. to unite in a troop, company, or confederacy.
2. to mark, decorate, or furnish with a band or bands.

verb (used without object)

1. to unite; confederate (often followed by together):

Origin of band

1480-90; Middle French bande Italian banda; cognate with Late Latin bandum Germanic; akin to Gothic bandwa standard, band², band

Examples for band

They must have thought you had a band of hunters behind you.

Every other band I had been in had been pretty loud, you could never hear the vocals.

But the chances were gradually growing unfavorable to Hawkeye and his band.

The band was still on its way back as De Blasio and his wife departed.

Since we've been coming through the mountains he and his band have picked off a lot of our men.

Cuban hip-hop has evolved as well, both Edgar and Julio talk about the band Los Aldeanos as the new generation of Cuban hip-hop.

In its fright, it had probably mistaken us for a band of buffalo.

In the course of weeks they formed a band, with Miss Henderson for president.

The band turned back around, raising a lively tune to signal life would go on.

We arrived to the din of a party in full swing: a band, multiple kegs of beer, dancing, foosball, and mantle diving.