Definitions for Bund

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Bund bund

Spelling: [buhnd]

IPA: /bʌnd/

Bund is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in Bund (bdnu).

Definitions for Bund

noun

1. an embankment or an embanked quay, often providing a promenade.
2. a short form of “German-American Volksbund,” a pro-Nazi organization in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s.
3. (often lowercase) an alliance or league, especially a political society.

Origin of Bund

1805-15; Hindi band Persian: dam, levee; akin to bind, bond¹

Examples for Bund

As a regular tourist—a.k.a. someone not trying to cash in on China—stay on the bund.

Perhaps he had walked the bund for an hour or two, but worriedly.

As for the words in -bund, many of them are already almost accepted.

On one occasion a show was arranged which might be termed the Grand Battle of the bund.

The bund is broad, fronting the water, and is a popular thoroughfare.

All aspirations for sea power had been abandoned by the bund.

Up and down the bund they course, here at exporting, there at importing.

The 102 other pits were, it is said, in the fields round the bund (embankment) of this tank.

My friends the Carters live right on the bund facing the water.

We have no gondolas it is true, but if our bund goes we can make shift with rafts.