bund

¹

[buhnd]

noun

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

Bund

²

[boond, buhnd, boont]

noun

plural

Bunds ,

plural

Bünde .

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 Word Forms

• Bundist 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

He opened a trio of boutiques in Shanghai’s luxury shopping complex, Three on the Bund, with plans to open 30 more stores in China within five years.

From Los Angeles Times

In this bestseller by one of America's most acclaimed novelists — our only selection from this century — fascism arrives in the U.S. through a counterfactual but highly plausible mechanism: After two terms, Roosevelt loses the 1940 election to legendary aviator Charles Lindbergh, a member of the famously pro-Nazi German-American Bund.

From Salon

In La Crescenta’s onetime Hindenburg Park, Americans showed up for rallies staged by the Bund, an American-varnished iteration of the Nazi party.

From Los Angeles Times

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.”

From Salon

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.

From Salon