Noun: fund
Sample Sentences
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the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
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a fund for the maintenance of underprivileged students
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Several major funds were declared insolvent recently.
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He drew on his immense fund of knowledge.
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an inexhaustible fund of stories [1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:]
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He was a most likeable and generous man, a Whitworth Scholar, and possessed of a fund of knowledge which seemed to cover every subject under the sun. [1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:]
Nouns inflected like fund
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *bʰudʰmḗn
3. Borrowed from Latin fundus. Doublet of fond and fundus. See: Latin Nouns '
fundus'.