Definitions for bunds

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bunds bund

Spelling: [buhnd]

IPA: /bʌnd/

Bunds is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in bunds (bdnsu).

Definitions for bunds

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 bunds

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

Examples for bunds

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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