bund

¹

[ buhnd ]

noun

1. an embankment or an embanked quay, often providing a promenade.

Bund

²

[ boond, buhnd; German boont ]

noun

, plural Bunds, German Bün·de [byn, -d, uh].

1. a short form of “German-American Volksbund,” a pro-Nazi organization in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s.
2. (often lowercase) an alliance or league, especially a political society.

Bund

¹

/ bʊnd; bʊnt /

noun

1. sometimes not capital a federation or league
2. short for German American Bund , an organization of US Nazis and Nazi sympathizers in the 1930s and 1940s
3. an organization of socialist Jewish workers in Russia founded in 1897
4. the confederation of N German states, which existed from 1867–71

bund

²

/ bʌnd /

noun

1. an embankment; dyke
2. an embanked road or quay

Other Words From

• Bundist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of bund¹

1805–15; < Hindi band < Persian: dam, levee; akin to bind, bond ¹

Origin of bund²

< German: association, league

Word History and Origins

Origin of bund¹

C19: German; related to band ², bind

Origin of bund²

C19: from Hindi band , from Persian; related to Sanskrit bandha band ¹

Example Sentences

You know, the roast comic who appeared at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden nouveau Bund rally and called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.”

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It could be that Trump has learned about the German-American Bund meeting held in Madison Square Garden in 1939 in which 20,000 American Nazis attended a rally wearing Nazi uniforms and giving the Hitler salute to the Nazi flag.

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There has not been so much vitriol in MSG since the German American Bund rally in 1939.

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Of the two events Lawler has left on the calendar, one of them is with former Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin, who represented the First District in New York, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who recently spoke at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, which drew comparisons to the 1939 German American Bund pro-Nazi rally held there.

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At his Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday, which in many ways was just an update of the infamous 1939 rally held there by the American Bund in support of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, Trump and the other speakers continued their racist and sexist attacks on Kamala Harris.

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