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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bandon)

bandon on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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