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Band

Pronunciation: /bant/

“Band” is a German word. Its 11 meanings in English:

noun

  1. tape, ribbon
  2. A ligament
  3. band or tie holding items together
  4. belt (conveyor belt, fan belt, etc.)
  5. band of the spectrum
  6. intimate bond to a person
  7. dependence, social bond
  8. shackle
  9. volume, a single book, chiefly when part of a larger set
  10. volume of a multi-volume publication
  11. modern music band

Etymology

From Middle High German bant, from Old High German bant, from Proto-West Germanic *band n or m, from Proto-Germanic *bandą ~ *bandaz (“band, bond”), derived from *bindaną (“to bind”). The noun was neuter in most of High German, but masculine in Low German (see Middle Low German bant m) and parts of West Central German. The lexicalisation of this northern usage in the sense “volume” dates from the…

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