Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In India and the East generally, an embankment forming a promenade and carriageway along a river-front or seaside; an esplanade.
  • noun A league, society, or association: as, Sänger-bund, a ‘singing association’; a shooting bund.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.
  • noun India An embankment against inundation.

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Examples

  • An insider's Guide Andrew Rowat The Bund is Shanghai's spectacular neo-colonial waterfront.

    The Bling Dynasty 2010

  • The yield on the benchmark 10-year gilt fell to 2.25%, compared with a rise in the yield on the corresponding German bond, known as a Bund, to 2.31%, as investors reacted favorably to the U.K. budget plan but sold other bonds following an upbeat reading on U.S. consumer sentiment.

    A Safer Shelter? Key U.K. Yield Below Germany's Neelabh Chaturvedi 2011

  • Multimillionaire Dai Zhikang set records in February 2010 when the company he controls, Shanghai Zendai Property Ltd., agreed to pay 9.22 billion yuan $1.45 billion at today's exchange rates for a plot of empty riverfront land just south of the city's historic strip of colonial-era bank buildings called the Bund.

    Pinch on China Developers James T. Areddy 2011

  • In the Polish areas of the empire, the Bund was a leading force in the 1905 revolution.

    Does the world—and the US—want Israel to survive? 2010

  • Of all Jewish political parties of the time, the Bund was the most progressive regarding gender equality, with more than one-third of membership being female

    Does the world—and the US—want Israel to survive? 2010

  • When it opened in 1994, the KFC on the Bund was the hippest spot in town.

    Superfusion Zachary Karabell 2009

  • When it opened in 1994, the KFC on the Bund was the hippest spot in town.

    Superfusion Zachary Karabell 2009

  • Luxemburg would never join the famous Jewish socialist organization known as the Bund, and she was basically unconcerned with issues of identity.

    Rosa Luxemburg. 2009

  • When it opened in 1994, the KFC on the Bund was the hippest spot in town.

    Superfusion Zachary Karabell 2009

  • [Actually] Any spot on the Bund is a fun place to be.

    Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News 2008

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