bandon

English

Etymology

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

Noun

bandon

1. (obsolete) Disposal; control; licence.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

• nonbad

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Esperanto

Noun

bandon

1. accusative singular of bando

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Old French

Alternative forms

• bandun (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

Ultimately from Frankish *ban.

Noun

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

1. jurisdiction

Derived terms

• a bandon

Descendants

• Middle English: baundon, bandoun
  • English: bandon
• Galician: baldón

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bandon)
• bandon on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub