bandon

See also: Bandon

English edit

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams edit

nonbad

Esperanto edit

Noun edit

bandon

accusative singular of bando

Old French edit

Alternative forms edit

bandun (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Frankish *bannan.

Noun edit

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

jurisdiction

Derived terms edit

a bandon

Descendants edit

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

References edit

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bandon)
bandon on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub