disband
/dɪsˈbænd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.87 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The president wanted to disband the scandal-plagued agency."
- "I used to be in a punk band, but we disbanded in the early 1980s."
- "Having taken a review of his Army at Ardachan, he disbanded his Army, and he himself continu'd his Journey to Erzirum"
- "The British Transport Commission, which was disbanded under the 1962 Transport Act that created the British Railways Board, had been established by Clement Attlee's Labour government at nationalisation 14 years earlier."
- "And therefore […] she ought to be disbanded."
Etymology
Attested since the 1590s, from Middle French desbander (Modern French débander), from des- (English dis-) + bande (English band), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”). By surface analysis, dis- + band.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: desbander, *bʰendʰ-
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /dɪsˈbænd/