bandon
English
Etymology
From Middle English baundon, from Old French bandon. See abandon for more.
Noun
bandon
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- nonbad
Esperanto
Noun
bandon
- accusative singular of bando
Old French
Alternative forms
- bandun (Anglo-Norman)
Etymology
Ultimately from Frankish *ban.
Noun
bandon m (oblique plural bandons, nominative singular bandons, nominative plural bandon)
- jurisdiction
Derived terms
- a bandon
Descendants
- Middle English: baundon
- English: bandon
- Galician: baldón
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bandon)
- bandon on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub