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bund
1[buhnd]
noun
an embankment or an embanked quay, often providing a promenade.
Bund
2[boond, buhnd, boont]
noun
plural
Bunds ,plural
üԻ&Բ;.a short form of “German-American Volksbund,” a pro-Nazi organization in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s.
(often lowercase)an alliance or league, especially a political society.
Bund
1/ bʊnd, bʊnt /
noun
(sometimes not capital) a federation or league
short for German American Bund , an organization of US Nazis and Nazi sympathizers in the 1930s and 1940s
an organization of socialist Jewish workers in Russia founded in 1897
the confederation of N German states, which existed from 1867–71
bund
2/ ʌԻ /
noun
an embankment; dyke
an embanked road or quay
Other 51Թ Forms
- Bundist noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of bund2
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of bund1
Origin of bund2
Example Sentences
In this bestseller by one of America's most acclaimed novelists — our only selection from this century — fascism arrives in the U.S. through a counterfactual but highly plausible mechanism: After two terms, Roosevelt loses the 1940 election to legendary aviator Charles Lindbergh, a member of the famously pro-Nazi German-American Bund.
In La Crescenta’s onetime Hindenburg Park, Americans showed up for rallies staged by the Bund, an American-varnished iteration of the Nazi party.
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.”
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.
There has not been so much vitriol in MSG since the German American Bund rally in 1939.
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