Bund
an embankment or an embanked quay, often providing a promenade.
a short form of “German-American Volksbund,” a pro-Nazi organization in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s.
(often lowercase) an alliance or league, especially a political society.
Contemporary Examples
Gal With a Suitcase: Shanghai Jolie Hunt January 6, 2011
Historical Examples
Mortmain Arthur Cheny Train
The Pacific Triangle Sydney Greenbie
The Childrens’ Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) James Edward Parrott
Lady of the Decoration Frances Little
Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century Charles Morris
Two Chancellors Julian Klaczko
Castes and Tribes of Southern India Edgar Thurston
Mortmain Arthur Cheny Train
The Childrens’ Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) James Edward Parrott
noun (in India and the Far East)
an embankment; dyke
an embanked road or quay
noun (pl) Bunds, Bünde (German) (ˈbyndə)
(sometimes not capital) a federation or league
short for German American Bund, an organization of US Nazis and Nazi sympathizers in the 1930s and 1940s
an organization of socialist Jewish workers in Russia founded in 1897
the confederation of N German states, which existed from 1867–71
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