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bund

1

[ buhnd ]

noun

  1. an embankment or an embanked quay, often providing a promenade.


Bund

2

[ boond, buhnd; German boont ]

noun

plural Bunds, German üԻ
  1. a short form of “German-American Volksbund,” a pro-Nazi organization in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s.
  2. (often lowercase) an alliance or league, especially a political society.

Bund

1

/ bʊnd; bʊnt /

noun

  1. sometimes not capital a federation or league
  2. short for German American Bund , an organization of US Nazis and Nazi sympathizers in the 1930s and 1940s
  3. an organization of socialist Jewish workers in Russia founded in 1897
  4. the confederation of N German states, which existed from 1867–71
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

bund

2

/ ʌԻ /

noun

  1. an embankment; dyke
  2. an embanked road or quay
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ܲԻi noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of bund1

1805–15; < Hindi band < Persian: dam, levee; akin to bind, bond 1

Origin of bund2

< German: association, league
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of bund1

C19: German; related to band ², bind

Origin of bund2

C19: from Hindi band , from Persian; related to Sanskrit bandha band 1
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In La Crescenta’s onetime Hindenburg Park, Americans showed up for rallies staged by the Bund, an American-varnished iteration of the Nazi party.

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You know, the roast comic who appeared at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden nouveau Bund rally and called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.”

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It could be that Trump has learned about the German-American Bund meeting held in Madison Square Garden in 1939 in which 20,000 American Nazis attended a rally wearing Nazi uniforms and giving the Hitler salute to the Nazi flag.

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There has not been so much vitriol in MSG since the German American Bund rally in 1939.

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Of the two events Lawler has left on the calendar, one of them is with former Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin, who represented the First District in New York, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who recently spoke at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, which drew comparisons to the 1939 German American Bund pro-Nazi rally held there.

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