bunde
noun, plural Bunds German, Bün·de 
[byn-duh] .
[byn-duh] . 1.
a short form of “German-American Volksbund,” a pro-Nazi organization in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s.
2.
( often lowercase ) an alliance or league, especially a political society.
Origin:
< German: association, league
< German: association, league
Related forms
Bund·ist, noun
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| —n | |
| 1. | an embankment; dyke |
| 2. | an embanked road or quay |
| [C19: from Hindi band, from Persian; related to Sanskrit bandha | |
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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| Bund (bʊnd, German bʊnt) | |
| —n , pl Bunds, Bünde | |
| 1. | (sometimes not capital) a federation or league |
| 2. | short for German American Bund, an organization of US Nazis and Nazi sympathizers in the 1930s and 1940s |
| 3. | an organization of socialist Jewish workers in Russia founded in 1897 |
| 4. | the confederation of N German states, which existed from 1867--71 |
| [C19: German; related to | |
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