bona fide
or bona-fide
Origin of bona fide
1usage note For bona fide
Other words for bona fide
Opposites for bona fide
Words that may be confused with bona fide
- bona fide , bona fides (see usage note at bona fides)
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How to use bona fide in a sentence
Super Bowl Halftime Shows are no longer kitschy theme park spectacles, but bonafide entertainment events.
He was a bonafide stud, and gained the affections of an entire generation of Millennials.
Actor Paul Walker, Star of ‘The Fast and the Furious’ Films, Dies In Car Crash | Marlow Stern | December 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTJudging from the list, it seems like German chancellor Angela Merkel is a bonafide Adidas addict.
Sarkozy Gave the Obamas $41,000 Worth of Swag | Misty White Sidell | April 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTSeth Rogen, a soft-bellied, bong-loving schlub in Knocked Up, is now a bonafide superhero in the forthcoming The Green Hornet.
Many bonafide travellers and ownerless dogs come near him and defile him.
Ulysses | James Joyce
It was evidently a voodoo ceremony they were enacting, and I knew it could not be complete—if bonafide—without the snake.
The Voodoo Gold Trail | Walter WaldenIt is really too bad that they don't exist as objective, bonafide compilations of the elder and darker Lore!
The Fantasy Fan November 1933 | Charles D. Hornig
British Dictionary definitions for bona fide
real or genuine: a bona fide manuscript
undertaken in good faith: a bona fide agreement
Irish informal a public house licensed to remain open after normal hours to serve bona fide travellers
Origin of bona fide
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for bona fide
[ (boh-nuh feyed, boh-nuh feye-dee, bon-uh feyed) ]
Genuine: “The offer was a bona fide business opportunity: they really meant to carry it through.” From Latin, meaning “in good faith.”
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