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bownd

bownd is the obsolete spelling 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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Forms of bownd

pluralbownds

Questions about bownd

What is bownd the obsolete spelling of?
Bownd is the obsolete spelling of bound.

Words near bownd in the dictionary

  1. Bowmore
  2. bowmouth guitarfish
  3. bowmouth guitarfishes
  4. Bown
  5. Bowna
  6. bownd
  7. bowndaries
  8. bowndary
  9. bownds
  10. Bowne
  11. bowned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bownd (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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