bandon

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See also: Bandon

English

Etymology

From Middle English baundon, from Old French bandon. See abandon for more.

Noun

bandon

  1. (obsolete) Disposal; control; licence.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bandon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Esperanto

Noun

bandon

  1. accusative singular of bando

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately from Frankish *bannan.

Noun

bandon oblique singular, m (oblique plural bandons, nominative singular bandons, nominative plural bandon)

  1. jurisdiction

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Middle English: baundon, bandoun
    • English: bandon
  • → Old Galician-Portuguese: baldon
  • → Spanish: baldón

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