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bund
1[ buhnd ]
noun
- an embankment or an embanked quay, often providing a promenade.
Bund
2[ boond, buhnd; German boont ]
noun
- 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.
Bund
1/ bʊnd; bʊnt /
noun
- 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
bund
2/ bʌnd /
noun
- an embankment; dyke
- an embanked road or quay
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- Bundist noun
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Example Sentences
The Bund’s February 1939 rally at Madison Square Garden, for example, drew more than 20,000 enthusiastic supporters under banners that included swastikas and images of George Washington.
As a regular tourist—a.k.a. someone not trying to cash in on China—stay on the Bund.
A moment later and his eyes were straining after a figure that was fast disappearing up the bund.
A few minutes later they were walking down the Bund, with the cool night-air playing upon their fevered faces.
Up and down the Bund they course, here at exporting, there at importing.
The "Rhine-Bund," therefore, was constructed just as France desired.
The utmost they would yield was to be united into a confederacy called the Bund, with a Diet meeting at Frankfurt.
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