bound
confined by bonds
How often you will meet it
Rank 876 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 20,968 times across 175,112 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- confined by bonds bound and gagged hostages
- held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
- secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form bound volumesleather-bound volumes
- (usually followed by `to') governed by fate also: destined bound to happenan old house destined to be demolished
- covered or wrapped with a bandage also: bandaged the bandaged wound on the back of his headan injury bound in fresh gauze
- headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students' also: destined children bound for schoola flight destined for New York
bound in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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But at one bound M. de Tregars had caught him.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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I am bound to state that she never told me he was good-looking.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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Vesta was the goddess of the home, and the vestal virgins were bound by oath never to marry.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1
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But I soon discovered she was a Portuguese ship, as I thought bound to the coast of Guinea for Negroes.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures · Daniel Defoe · Chapter 1
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Here Smith was placed upon a scaffold, six feet square and ten feet high, securely bound, within the view of all beholders.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1