bandon

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See also: Bandon

English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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Esperanto

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Noun

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bandon

  1. accusative singular of bando

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Frankish *bannan.

Noun

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

  1. jurisdiction

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Middle English: baundon, bandoun
    • English: bandon
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: baldon
  • Spanish: baldón

References

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