bond – English noun declension

English noun forms of bond

Noun: bond
Singularbond
Pluralbonds

Sample Sentences

  • Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
  • Many say that government and corporate bonds are a good investment to balance against a portfolio consisting primarily of stocks.
  • The prisoner was brought before the tribunal in iron bonds.
  • They had grown up as friends and neighbors, and not even vastly differing political views could break the bond of their friendship.
  • 1792, Edmund Burke, a letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe on the subject of the Roman Catholics of Ireland
  • a people with whom I have no tie but the common bond of mankind.
  • Between us there was, as I have already said somewhere, the bond of the sea. [1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 193:]
  • I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less. [c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
  • Organic chemistry primarily consists of the study of carbon bonds, in their many variations.
  • You could rely on him. His word was his bond.
  • Herbert resented his wife for subjecting him to the bonds of matrimony; he claimed they had gotten married while drunk.
  • liquor bottled in bond
  • The bailiff released the prisoner as soon as the bond was posted.
  • Ellison, who is out on bond, also faces the prospect of lengthy imprisonment. Her lawyers did not comment. [2023 September 30, Victoria Bekiempis, “‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
  • A bond of superglue adhered the teacups to the ceiling, much to the consternation of the cafe owners.

Etymology

From Middle English bond, a variant of band, from Old English beand, bænd, bend (“bond, chain, fetter, band, ribbon, ornament, chaplet, crown”), from Proto-Germanic *bandaz, *bandiz (“band, fetter”)، from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie; bond, band”). Cognate with Dutch band, German Band, Swedish band. Doublet of Bund. Related to bind. See: Dutch Nouns 'band', German Nouns 'Band', Swedish Nouns 'band'.

Verbs referencing "bond"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns band, Finnish Nouns bondi, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns bonde, Portuguese Nouns bonde, Ukrainian Nouns бонд.