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bounds

/baʊndz/

bounds is the plural of bound.

bounds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bound.

Meaning of bound

Noun (1)

bound (plural bounds)

  1. (often) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
    • I reached the northern bound of my property, took a deep breath and walked on.
  2. A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.

Noun (2)

bound (plural bounds)

  1. A sizeable jump, great leap.
    • The deer crossed the stream in a single bound.
  2. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
  3. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
    • Balzo, a bound of a ball1598, John Florio, “Balzo”, in A Worlde of Words, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield for Edw[ard] Blount, →OCLC

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Proper noun capitalized: Bounds

IPA/ˈbaʊndz/

Bounds (plural Boundses)

  1. A surname.

Forms of bounds

pluralBoundses

Phrases with bounds

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Words that rhyme with bounds

Questions about bounds

What does bounds mean?
Bounds means a surname.
What is bounds the plural of?
Bounds is the plural of bound.
What part of speech is bounds?
Bounds is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bounds?
Bounds is pronounced /baʊndz/.

Words near bounds in the dictionary

  1. boundlessness
  2. boundlessnesses
  3. boundling
  4. boundlings
  5. boundness
  6. bounds
  7. bounds ahead
  8. Bounds Green
  9. boundsgoer
  10. boundsgoers
  11. boundstone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bounds (page history and authors); Bounds (page history and authors); bound (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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