band – English noun declension

English noun forms of band

Noun: band
Singularband
Pluralbands

Sample Sentences

  • The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • band and gusset and seam [1843, Thomas Hood, The Song of the Shirt:]
  • sandstone with bands of shale
  • [...] at each station the train times are not shown in one all-embracing chronological list, but in two separate sheets, one with a conspicuous band of yellow detailing westbound departures and the other with a similar band of blue the eastbound trains. [1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714:]
  • For that heroic band—those children of the furnace who, in regions like Texas and Tennessee, maintained their fidelity through terrible trials—we of the North felt for them, and profoundly we honor them. [1866, Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Supplement:]
  • valence band;  conduction band
  • OLd Iohn of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaſter,
  • Haſt thou according to thy oath and band
  • Brought hither Henry Herford thy bold ſon:
  • Heere to make good yͤ boiſtrous late appeale,
  • Which then our leyſure would not let vs heare,
  • Againſt the Duke of Norfolke, Thomas Mowbray? [1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, column 1:]
  • He sent to her his basenet as a faithfull band. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
  • She my trap queen, let her hit the bando / We be countin' up, watch how far them bands go [2014, “Trap Queen”, performed by Fetty Wap:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *bandiz
4. Old English bend
5. Middle English band
6. English band
7. Inherited from Middle English band (also bond), from Old English beand, bænd, bend (“bond, chain, fetter, band, ribbon, ornament, chaplet, crown”), from Proto-Germanic *bandą, *bandiz (“band, fetter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie, bind”). Middle English band reinforced by Old French bande.
8. Cognate with Dutch band, German Band, Danish bånd, Swedish band, Icelandic band (“band”). Related to bond, bind, bend. See: Middle English Nouns 'band', Middle English Nouns 'band', Middle English Nouns 'band', Dutch Nouns 'band', German Nouns 'Band', Danish Nouns 'bånd', Swedish Nouns 'band', Icelandic Nouns 'band'.

Verbs referencing "band"

English Nouns ribbon, Danish Nouns band, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns band, Irish Nouns banda, Finnish Nouns bändi, Finnish Nouns panta.