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bund ¹  (bnd)

n.

1. An embankment or dike, especially in India.

2. A street running along a harbor or waterway, especially in the Far East.

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[Hindi band, from Persian, from Middle Persian, from Avestan *banda-, from Old Iranian; see bhendh- in Indo-European roots.]

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bund ²  (bnd, bnd)

n.

1. An association, especially a political association.

2. often Bund A pro-Nazi German-American organization of the 1930s.

3. often Bund A European Jewish socialist movement founded in Russia in 1897.

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[German, from Middle High German bunt; see bhendh- in Indo-European roots.]

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bundist n.

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bund [bʌnd]

n (in India and the Far East)

1. (Engineering / Civil Engineering) an embankment; dyke

2. (Engineering / Civil Engineering) an embanked road or quay

[from Hindi band, from Persian; related to Sanskrit bandha band¹]

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Bund [bʊnd (German) bʊnt]

n pl Bunds, Bünde (German) [ˈbyndə]

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (sometimes not capital) a federation or league

2. (Historical Terms) short for German American Bund, an organization of US Nazis and Nazi sympathizers in the 1930s and 1940s

3. (Historical Terms) an organization of socialist Jewish workers in Russia founded in 1897

4. (Historical Terms) the confederation of N German states, which existed from 1867-71

[German; related to band², bind]