band
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[ band ]
/ bænd /
noun
a company of persons or, sometimes, animals or things, joined, acting, or functioning together; aggregation; party; troop: a band of protesters.
Music.
- a group of instrumentalists playing music of a specialized type: rock band; calypso band; mariachi band.
- a musical group, usually employing brass, percussion, and often woodwind instruments, that plays especially for marching or open-air performances.
- big band.
- dance band.
a division of a nomadic tribe; a group of individuals who move and camp together and subsist by hunting and gathering.
a group of persons living outside the law: a renegade band.
verb (used with object)
to unite in a troop, company, or confederacy.
verb (used without object)
to unite; confederate (often followed by together): They banded together to oust the chairman.
Idioms for band
to beat the band, Informal.
energetically; abundantly: It rained all day to beat the band.
Origin of band
1SYNONYMS FOR band
synonym study for band
1. See
company.
Words nearby band
Definition for band (2 of 4)
band
2
[ band ]
/ bænd /
noun
verb (used with object)
to mark, decorate, or furnish with a band or bands.
Origin of band
2OTHER WORDS FROM band
band·er, noun band·less, adjectiveDefinition for band (3 of 4)
band
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[ band ]
/ bænd /
noun Archaic.
Usually bands.
articles for binding the person or the limbs; shackles; manacles; fetters.
an obligation; bond: the nuptial bands.
Origin of band
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1100–50; late Old English < Old Norse
band; cognate with Old Saxon, Old Frisian
band, Old High German
bant; akin to Sanskrit
bandha-. See
band1
Definition for band (4 of 4)
Geneva bands
plural noun
two bands or pendent stripes made usually of white lawn and worn at the throat as part of clerical garb, originally by the Swiss Calvinist clergy.
Also called
bands.
Origin of Geneva bands
First recorded in 1880–85
Example sentences from the Web for band
British Dictionary definitions for band (1 of 4)
band
1
/ (bænd) /
noun
verb
(usually foll by together)
to unite; assemble
Word Origin for band
C15: from French
bande probably from Old Provençal
banda of Germanic origin; compare Gothic
bandwa sign,
banner
British Dictionary definitions for band (2 of 4)
band
2
/ (bænd) /
noun
verb (tr)
to fasten or mark with a band
Word Origin for band
C15: from Old French
bende, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German
binda fillet; see
band ³
British Dictionary definitions for band (3 of 4)
Word Origin for band
C13: from Old Norse
band; related to Old High German
bant fetter; see
bend
1,
bond
British Dictionary definitions for band (4 of 4)
Geneva bands
pl n
a pair of white lawn or linen strips hanging from the front of the neck or collar of some ecclesiastical and academic robes
Word Origin for Geneva bands
C19: named after
Geneva, where originally worn by Swiss Calvinist clergy
Medical definitions for band
band
[ bănd ]
n.
An appliance or a part of an apparatus that encircles or binds a part of the body.
A cordlike tissue that connects or that holds bodily structures together.
A chromatically, structurally, or functionally differentiated strip or stripe in or on an organism.
Scientific definitions for band
band
[ bănd ]
A specific range of electromagnetic wavelengths or frequencies, as those used in radio broadcasting.
Idioms and Phrases with band
band
see on the bandwagon; to beat the band.