Definitions for fond

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IPA: /fɒnd/

Fond is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in fond (dfno).

Definitions for fond

noun

  1. a background or groundwork, especially of lace.
  2. Obsolete. fund; stock.
  3. to or toward the bottom; thoroughly; fully.

adjective

  1. having a liking or affection for (usually followed by of):
  2. loving; affectionate:
  3. excessively tender or overindulgent; doting:
  4. cherished with strong or unreasoning feeling:
  5. Archaic. foolish or silly.
  6. Archaic. foolishly credulous or trusting.

Origin of fond

1300-50; Middle English fond, fonned (past participle of fonnen to be foolish, orig., to lose flavor, sour)

Examples for fond

You also seem to be fond of the way the film treated gravity—as opposed to your reservations about the film Gravity.

She met a Forbes at the club the other night who is fond of literature.

Commuters at Hackney Wick greeted by fond tribute to the late comedienne.

It is impossible not to be fond of our mother now; for she is so fond of us!

Sometimes,” he is fond of telling the press, “the target draws the arrow.

Aldonza had certainly not taught him the phrases he was so fond of repeating.

I can't begin to tell you how fond of her I am and always have been.

He was fond of hearing Grace's enthusiastic views of things.

For that matter, they never seemed too fond of anything adults liked in the way of books, movies, or music.

I'm fond of Austin, God knows--but all my life he has been put in front of me.

Word Value for fond
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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