fond

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɒnd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɑnd/

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• Rhymes: -ɒnd
• Homophone: fawned (cot–caught merger)

From Middle English fond, fonned, past participle of fonnen (“to be foolish, be simple, dote”), equivalent to fon +‎ -ed. More at fon.

fond (comparative fonder, superlative fondest)

1. Having a liking or affection (for). [(chiefly) with of]

   I am fond of this song!

   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, 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 II, scene i]:

     more fond on her than she upon her love

   • 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:

     a great traveller, and fond of telling his adventures

2. Affectionate.

   a fond farewell

   a fond mother or wife

3. Indulgent, doting.

   I have fond grandparents who spoil me.

   • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

     “The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. […]”

4. Outlandish; foolish; silly.

   Your fond dreams of flying to Jupiter have been quashed by the facts of reality.

5. (obsolete) Foolish; simple; weak.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent
     to offend, for if it touch not you, it comes near
     nobody.

   • c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Grant I may never prove so fond
     To trust man on his oath or bond.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     [T]hou seest
     How suttly to detaine thee I devise,
     Inviting thee to hear while I relate,
     Fond, were it not in hope of thy reply …

   • 1669, John Dryden, Tyrannic Love, III.ii:

     But reason with your fond religion fights,
     For many gods are many infinites …

   • 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Midnight Mass For the Dying Year:

     The foolish, fond Old Year,

6. (obsolete) Doted on; regarded with affection.
   • 1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. , London: John Murray,, (please specify the stanza number):

     Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.

• See also Thesaurus:affectionate

fond (third-person singular simple present fonds, present participle fonding, simple past and past participle fonded)

1. (obsolete) To have a foolish affection for, to be fond of.
2. (obsolete) To caress; to fondle.
   • 1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     The Tyrian hugs and fonds thee on her breast.

• (to caress): grope, pet, touch up; see also Thesaurus:fondle

• fondle

From French, ultimately from Latin fundus. Doublet of fund and fundus.

fond (plural fonds)

1. The background design in lace-making.
2. (cooking) Brown residue in pans from cooking meats and vegetables.

   He used the fond to make a classic French pan sauce.

3. (information science) A group of records having shared provenance.
   • 1999, Graham Kee Lee Tan, Village social organisation and peasant action: Right-bank Ukraine during the revolution 1917–1923 (doctoral dissertation), London: University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Preface & Acknowledgements, page 3:

     To denote archival material collected from Ukrainian archives I have used the Ukrainian system of classification (i.e. fond, opys, sprava and arkush). I have used the Russian system for material from Russian archives (i.e. fond, opis, delo, stranitsa). I have also provided a glossary of terms used for Ukrainian, Russian or Polish terms at the back of the thesis for easy reference.

4. (obsolete) Foundation; bottom; groundwork.
5. (obsolete) Fund, stock, or store.

• Fond on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Fonds on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from French fond.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfont]

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fond m inan

1. fund

• “fond”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “fond”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “fond”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From French fond, from Latin fundus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn. Cognate with Danish bund.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfʌnˀd̥]
• Homophone: font

fond c or n (singular definite fonden or fondet, plural indefinite fonde or fonder)

1. fund
2. foundation, donation

From French fond, identical to the former word.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfʌnˀd̥], [ˈfʌŋ]

fond c (singular definite fonden, plural indefinite fonder)

1. stock, broth

• IPA^(key): /fɔ̃/

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• Homophone: font

Inherited from Old French, from Latin fundus. Doublet of fonds.

fond m (plural fonds)

1. back
2. bottom
3. fund; funding
4. foundation
5. (figuratively) content

   Synonym: contenu

   Coordinate term: forme

   le fond et la forme ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

6. (figuratively) essence

   le fond du problème ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

7. background
8. (cooking) base
9. (music) foundation stop on a pipe organ

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fond

1. third-person singular present indicative of fondre

• “fond”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• fonjad

fon +‎ -d

• IPA^(key): [ˈfond]
• Hyphenation: fond
• Rhymes: -ond

fond

1. second-person singular subjunctive present definite of fon

From Latin fundus.

fond m (plural fonds)

1. fund
2. bottom

Borrowed from Italian fondo.

• IPA^(key): /fɔnt/

fond (feminine singular fonda, plural fondi)

1. deep

   Synonyms: għammieq, profond

fond m

1. depth (that which is deep below; the deepest part)

   Synonyms: għamieq, profondità

2. base; bottom
3. fund

fond

1. alternative form of fend

fond

1. alternative form of fonned

From French fond, from Latin fundus.

fond n (definite singular fondet, indefinite plural fond, definite plural fonda or fondene)

1. a fund

• pensjonsfond

• “fond” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From French fond, from Latin fundus.

fond n (definite singular fondet, indefinite plural fond, definite plural fonda)

1. a fund

• pensjonsfond

• “fond” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French fond, itself from Latin fundus. Doublet of the inherited fund.

• IPA^(key): /fond/

fond n (plural fonduri)

1. fund
2. background
3. content, substance, essence

• în fond (“essentially, basically”)

Borrowed from French fond.

fȍnd m inan (Cyrillic spelling фо̏нд)

1. fund

From French fond.

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fond c

1. fund [since 1715]
2. backdrop; a theatrical scenery [since 1783]
3. (cooking, "Kitchen French") broth [since 1979]

fund

• fondera

• buljong
• spad

• fond in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fond in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fond in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)