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fond

fɑnd
WordNet
Ritual wine cup. Division by bands into three zones; very fine spiral decor of fond and ornamentation.
Ritual wine cup. Division by bands into three zones; very fine spiral decor of fond and ornamentation.
  1. (adj) fond
    (followed by `of' or `to') having a strong preference or liking for "fond of chocolate","partial to horror movies"
  2. (adj) fond
    extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent "adoring grandparents","deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain","hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother"
  3. (adj) fond
    having or displaying warmth or affection "affectionate children","a fond embrace","fond of his nephew","a tender glance","a warm embrace"
  4. (adj) fond
    absurd or silly because unlikely "fond hopes of becoming President","fond fancies"
Illustrations
Steel silk. Pattern: pink fond with white tendrils with buds. Embroidered scatter flowers, in four types: a. Made of red and yellow leaves; b. pink / red ray flower of blue with yellow / green leaves; c. red and yellow button.
Steel silk. Pattern: pink fond with white tendrils with buds. Embroidered scatter flowers, in four types: a. Made of red and yellow leaves; b. pink / red ray flower of blue with yellow / green leaves; c. red and yellow button.
Satire on the balloonist, possibly on Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond who published in 1783-84 about the flights of the Montgolfier brothers. Man walks across the land on skates towards the gate 'temple du gout'. Two balloons at his head. On his back hangs a rat-eaten copy of his book 'Recherches sur les volcans éteints du Vivarais et du Velay' from 1778.
Satire on the balloonist, possibly on Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond who published in 1783-84 about the flights of the Montgolfier brothers. Man walks across the land on skates towards the gate 'temple du gout'. Two balloons at his head. On his back hangs a rat-eaten copy of his book 'Recherches sur les volcans éteints du Vivarais et du Velay' from 1778.
Fan leaf, ink on silver fond on paper. Artist's seal in red.
Fan leaf, ink on silver fond on paper. Artist's seal in red.
Story of the boy Jantje, no. 3, with inscription: Jantje was not fond of numbers and study.
Story of the boy Jantje, no. 3, with inscription: Jantje was not fond of numbers and study.
Phillis overhears Chloe about a wicker basket she is very fond of. Chloe got it from Amyntas, a handsome shepherd. Numbered bottom right: 11.
Phillis overhears Chloe about a wicker basket she is very fond of. Chloe got it from Amyntas, a handsome shepherd. Numbered bottom right: 11.
Carpet, belonging to the Jan de Meyer furniture design. Violet fond. Note: some pieces of the suite were already given to us in 1973 by Mr. and Mrs. Loeb-Levenbach in Voorschoten. Western rug.
Carpet, belonging to the Jan de Meyer furniture design. Violet fond. Note: some pieces of the suite were already given to us in 1973 by Mr. and Mrs. Loeb-Levenbach in Voorschoten. Western rug.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Fond
    Affectionate; loving; tender; -- in a good sense; as, a fond mother or wife.
  2. Fond
    Doted on; regarded with affection. "Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer."
  3. Fond
    Foolish; silly; simple; weak. "Grant I may never prove so fond To trust man on his oath or bond."
  4. Fond
    Foolishly tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over-affectionate.
  5. Fond
    Foundation; bottom; groundwork;
  6. Fond
    Fund, stock, or store.
  7. Fond
    Loving; much pleased; affectionately regardful, indulgent, or desirous; longing or yearning; -- followed by offormerly also by on). "More fond on her than she upon her love.", "You are as fond of grief as of your child.", "A great traveler, and fond of telling his adventures."
  8. Fond
    The broth or juice from braised flesh or fish, usually served as a sauce.
  9. Fond
    The ground.
  10. Fond
    To be fond; to dote.
  11. Fond
    To caress; to fondle. "The Tyrian hugs and fonds thee on her breast."
  12. Fond
    Trifling; valued by folly; trivial.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. fond
    An obsolete preterit of find.
  2. fond
    A Middle English form of fand.
  3. fond
    Foolish; simple; silly.
  4. fond
    Exhibiting or expressing foolishness or folly.
  5. fond
    Foolishly tender and loving; doting; weakly indulgent; also (without implication of weakness or foolishness), tender; loving; very affectionate.
  6. fond
    Foolishly or extravagantly prized; hence, trifling; trivial.
  7. fond
    Disposed to prize highly or to like very much; feeling affection or pleasure: usually followed by of, rarely by an infinitive: as, to be fond of children; to be fond of oysters.
  8. fond
    Cloyingly sweet in taste or smell; fulsome; luscious.
  9. fond
    To be fond; be in love; dote.
  10. fond
    To treat with great indulgence or tenderness; caress; fondle.
  11. (n) fond
    Bottom.
  12. (n) fond
    Fund; stock.
  13. (n) fond
    (F. pron. fôṅ). A background or groundwork, especially of lace.
  14. (n) fond
    A gravy from braized and spiced meats which serves as the foundation for sauces.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.i) Fond
    (Spens.) to try, attempt.
  2. (adj) Fond
    fond foolishly tender and loving: weakly indulgent: prizing highly (with of): very affectionate: kindly disposed:
  3. (v.i) Fond
    to dote
  4. Fond
    . See Fand (2).
  5. (adj) Fond
    fond (obs.) foolish
Quotations
Vladimir Mayakovsky
No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Jonathan Swift
We are so fond of one another because our ailments are the same.
Jonathan Swift
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Charles Caleb Colton
Ernest Hemingway
You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.
Ernest Hemingway
Douglas William Jerrold
Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.
Douglas William Jerrold
You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.
Marguerite Duras
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary For fonned, p. p. of OE. fonnen, to be foolish. See Fon

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary For fonned, pa.p. of M. E. fonnen, to act foolishly, fon, a fool; fondly conn. by some with Sw. fåne, fool, Ice. fáni, swaggerer.

Usage in the news

He said he was not fond of actors. nybooks.com

Most everyone has fond childhood memories of making Christmas cookies during the holidays. telluridewatch.com

Anne Frank -Fonds European Pressphoto Agency. nytimes.com

She's now branched out and is releasing a solo album under the name JAN. As you may very well know, we're very fond of girls who rock, and Talon is no exception. z94.com

Many people have fond memories of time spent at summer camp. blog.nj.com

We've all heard the Twelve Days of Christmas song, many of us fond of the Muppets version of the familiar carol. kool1017.com

As a woman, I am not too fond of football not to mention paying games to only be dissapointed at the end of it. 929jackfm.com

Byrd, who died early Monday at 92, was fond of saying that he loved the institution more than its members. vgazette.com

Tolstoy Recalled Fondly in Chechen Museum. nytimes.com

SEYMOUR — Longtime Seymour Town Clerk Esther Rozum received a fond farewell from friends, family and co-workers Thursday on her final day on the job. acorn-online.com

We've never been all that fond of you, but this stuff isn't helping your rep. thephoenix.com

Fond of Photoshop, Martha's Vineyard student develops typeface . mvtimes.com

Fond of Joe Sakic but Claude Lemieux ugh . freep.com

RALEIGH, NC (NEWS RELEASE) -– A new poll released by the Civitas Institute shows North Carolina's unaffiliated voters are not too fond of DC politicians such as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and John Boehner. aytv3.com

This subtle imperfection, the theory states, causes people's feelings toward robots to veer from fondness to revulsion. popularmechanics.com

Usage in scientific papers

Work supported by the Austrian Fonds zur F¨orderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung under pro j. nos.
Collisions of Slow Highly Charged Ions with Surfaces

Received February 2005; revised March 2006. 1 Supported by grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and from the Fonds qu´eb´ecois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies.
Asymptotic local efficiency of Cram\'{e}r--von Mises tests for multivariate independence

We also acknowledge a financial support of Leids Kerkhoven-Bosscha Fonds.
Numerical determination of the material properties of porous dust cakes

VP acknowledges support from Fonds qu´eb´ecois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies.
Magnetic fields, winds and X-rays of massive stars: A spectropolarimetric survey of the Orion cluster

It gives me great pleasure to acknowledge the financial support pro ject P19500N13 of the “Fonds zur F¨orderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF)”, as well as the help and comments of Andreas ˇCap and Jan Slov´ak, and the support of the math department of the university of Vienna.
Non-regular $|2|$-graded geometries II: classifying geometries, and generic six-in-nine distributions

Usage in literature

He was very fond of your father as a little boy. "A Little Girl in Old Boston" by Amanda Millie Douglas

It is the partiality of a fond father that speaks, my dear fellow. "A True Friend" by Adeline Sergeant

It's curious, but she really seems fond of Lalage. "Lalage's Lovers" by George A. Birmingham

The captain's too fond of brag, and that's a fact. "The Northern Iron" by George A. Birmingham

He was fond of his little cousin, and could not bear to see her distressed. "Chatterbox, 1906" by Various

Elizabeth was extremely vain and extremely fond of romance. "Historic Boyhoods" by Rupert Sargent Holland

The lad is fond of her, and she loves him. "Floyd Grandon's Honor" by Amanda Minnie Douglas

Ay; he was wonderful fond o' the pallid wee thing. "Harbor Tales Down North" by Norman Duncan

Like Luther, he was passionately fond of music, and played the lute, the harp, the violin, the flute and the dulcimer. "A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon" by John Lord

You know she was my nurse when I was a baby, and she's very fond of me. "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Usage in poetry
The youthful poet's soothing dream
Of golden ages past,
The muse's fond ideal theme
Seem'd realiz'd at last.
"Edwin and Eltruda, a Legendary Tale" by Helen Maria Williams
The star of love shone o'er us,
His arm was round me thrown
And he fondly said he loved me
And loved but me alone
"First Love" by Nora Pembroke
When to another, the fond breast
Each thought for ever gives;
When on another leans for rest,
And in another lives!
"To Sensibility" by Helen Maria Williams
Alone I lie, whose like
By love was never yet;
Nor rich, nor poore, nor younge, nor old,
Nor fond, nor full of witt.
"A Fancy" by Edward Dyer
What fond and wayward thoughts will slide
Into a Lover's head!
"O mercy!" to myself I cried,
"If Lucy should be dead!"
"Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known" by William Wordsworth
That angel smile that late so much
Could my fond heart rejoice;
And he has silenced by his touch
The music of thy voice.
"To --------" by Anne Bronte Author object (43)