band
/bænd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.92 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
noun
A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
noun
A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
noun
A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
noun
A strip of decoration.
noun
A strip of decoration.
noun
That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
Example Sentences
- "The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them."
- "band and gusset and seam"
- "sandstone with bands of shale"
- "[...] at each station the train times are not shown in one all-embracing chronological list, but in two separate sheets, one with a conspicuous band of yellow detailing westbound departures and the other with a similar band of blue the eastbound trains."
- "For that heroic band—those children of the furnace who, in regions like Texas and Tennessee, maintained their fidelity through terrible trials—we of the North felt for them, and profoundly we honor them."
- "valence band; conduction band"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *bandiz Old English bend Middle English band English band Inherited from Middle English band (also bond), from Old English beand, bænd, bend (“bond, chain, fetter, band, ribbon, ornament, chaplet, crown”), from Proto-Germanic *bandą, *bandiz (“band, fetter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie, bind”). Middle English band reinforced by Old French bande. Cognate with Dutch band, German Band, Danish bånd, Swedish band, Icelandic band (“band”). Related to bond, bind, bend.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /bænd/
- British English: /bænd/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Music.
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Band in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
in .
William Dwight Whitney
Benjamin Eli Smith
editors (1895–1910)
in
New York
N.Y.: The Century Co.