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bona fide
[ boh-nuh fahyd, bon-uh; boh-nuh fahy-dee ]
bona fide
adjective
- real or genuine
a bona fide manuscript
- undertaken in good faith
a bona fide agreement
noun
- informal.a public house licensed to remain open after normal hours to serve bona fide travellers
bona fide
- Genuine: “The offer was a bona fide business opportunity: they really meant to carry it through.” From Latin , meaning “in good faith.”
Usage Note
Word History and Origins
Origin of bona fide1
Word History and Origins
Origin of bona fide1
Example Sentences
Another sent back a flat-screen television with a bona fide tombstone within.
The Facebook co-founder and his politically ambitious husband embodied all the attributes of a bona fide “gay power couple.”
A conservative coloring book publisher is out with a new title imagining the tea party heartthrob as a bona fide superhero.
Stephen Hawking is not only a bona fide genius, but also one of the most resilient men on the planet.
By the time the CFDA awards rolled round in early 1994, Moss was a bona fide star.
Nor can other creditors through filing objections to a claim prevent a bona fide claimant from voting.
The fact that you are here tells me that the wireless you got on the ship was not only bona fide but important.
Such relief was to be granted with due consideration and the bona fide intention of recovering.
If all that George Sand here says is bona fide, the letter proves that the rupture had not yet taken place.
It is not entered as second-class matter and it has probably no bona-fide circulation.
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