Word: Bounds
How to pronounce: baʊnd
Verb
Definitions:
1. Walk or run with leaping strides.
Example sentences: "Louis came bounding down the stairs"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A leaping movement towards or over something.
Example sentences: "I went up the steps in two effortless bounds"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A territorial limit; a boundary.
Example sentences: "The ancient bounds of the forest"
Verb
Definitions:
1. Form the boundary of; enclose.
Example sentences: "The ground was bounded by a main road on one side and a meadow on the other"
Adjective
Definitions:
1. Going or ready to go towards a specified place.
Example sentences: "An express train bound for Edinburgh"
Adjective
Definitions:
1. Certain to be or to do or have something.
2. Restricted or confined to a specified place.
3. (of a book) having a specified binding.
4. (of a grammatical element) occurring only in combination with another form.
Example sentences: "And that left a lot of people feeling anxiously that they were never allowed to use ‘they’ as a bound pronoun even when they needed to."
Synonyms:
bonded
limit
binding
limitation
confines
cap
ceiling
frame
jump
skip
bounce
verge
border
borderline
line
margin
edge
extent
constrained
restrict
confine
delimit
circumscribe
confined
destined
obliged
hop
leap
spring
mark
lope
saltation
vault
fringe
perimeter
periphery
restrain
leaping
out
Antonyms:
unbind
Derivations:
boundary
boundlessness
boundless
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Bounds in Other Languages...
Spanish: Obligado
German: Sprunghaft
French: Lier
Italian: Legato
Turkish: Ilişkili
