bands
/bændz/
bands is the plural of band.
bands is the third-person singular simple present indicative of band.
Meaning of band
Noun
band (plural bands)
- A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
- The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
- A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.
- band and gusset and seam1843, Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt
- A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
- A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
- A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.
- sandstone with bands of shale
- A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.
Phrases with bands
- A bands
- IT bands
- big bands
- boy bands
- hot bands
- jam bands
- jug bands
- lap bands
- leg bands
- red bands
- girl bands
- glam bands
82 more phrasesFewer phrases
- hair bands
- head bands
- iron bands
- jazz bands
- loom bands
- Mach bands
- mini bands
- pass bands
- pipe bands
- reef bands
- rock bands
- sand bands
- shag bands
- wind bands
- Alice bands
- belly bands
- brass bands
- chest bands
- cover bands
- dance bands
- ghost bands
- guard bands
- house bands
- lacky bands
- smart bands
- spasm bands
- steel bands
- sweet bands
- Vento bands
- wrist bands
- baller bands
- garage bands
- Geneva bands
- Indian bands
- Lüders bands
- Mobius bands
- Möbius bands
- ridged bands
- rubber bands
- school bands
- silver bands
- string bands
- backing bands
- concert bands
- driving bands
- elastic bands
- fitness bands
- foo-foo bands
- gastric bands
- haircut bands
- Moebius bands
- one man bands
- one-man bands
- scatter bands
- session bands
- stretch bands
- tribute bands
- valence bands
- wedding bands
- bands together
- currency bands
- marching bands
- scramble bands
- awareness bands
- frequency bands
- moderator bands
- preaching bands
- absorption bands
- battles of bands
- conduction bands
- iliotibial bands
- resistance bands
- Alexander's bands
- barrister's bands
- cytogenetic bands
- oligoclonal bands
- orthodontic bands
- First Nation bands
- onychodermal bands
- battle of the bands
- battles of the bands
- Alexander's dark bands
Words that rhyme with bands
Questions about bands
- What is bands the plural of?
- Bands is the plural of band.
- How do you pronounce bands?
- Bands is pronounced /bændz/.
Words near bands in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bands (page history and authors); band (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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