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bounders

bounders is the plural of bounder.

Meaning of bounder

Noun

bounder (plural bounders)

  1. Something that bounds or jumps.
  2. (UK, dated) A dishonourable man; a cad.
    • He marvelled anew that Ruth could have cared, as she certainly had, for this fellow. A bounder, and worse than a bounder.1928, Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train
  3. A social climber.
  4. That which limits; a boundary.
    • Let the mountaine Pyrenaeus diuide the French, and Spaniards: and the wildernesse of Sand the Aethiopians, from Aegyptians. And in like manner also be all other Kingdomes: they are bound within their bounders, as it were in bands; and shut-vp within their limits, as it were in prison.1638 Martin Fotherby (Iacob Blome: London) Atheomastix p.269
  5. (UK, colloquial, obsolete) A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet.

Phrases with bounders

Questions about bounders

What is bounders the plural of?
Bounders is the plural of bounder.

Words near bounders in the dictionary

  1. boundenly
  2. bounder
  3. bounderish
  4. bounderishly
  5. bounderism
  6. bounders
  7. boundest
  8. boundeth
  9. bounding
  10. bounding ahead
  11. bounding mine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bounders (page history and authors); bounder (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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