bounty
nounEtymology
From Middle English bounte (“goodness, virtue; beauty; strength; chivalry, valour; excellence; kindness, mercy; good deed; generosity”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman bounté and Old French bonté, bontet, bunté (modern French bonté (“goodness, kindness”)), from Latin bonitās.
Definitions
Generosity
Generosity; also (countable) an act of generosity.
- [H]is [Henry I, Duke of Guise's] gifts, though conferred for the interest of his ambition, appeared always scattered with an easy bounty.
Something given liberally
Something given liberally; a gift.
A reward for some specific act, especially one given by an authority or a government.
- In recent years, AGeS, the Alliance Geological Service, has offered bounties to private individuals or teams willing to perform mineralogical surveys on the frontier.
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An abundance or wealth.
- America insulted the rest of the planet, thought Malik Solanka in his old-fashioned way, by treating such bounty with the shoulder-shrugging casualness of the inequitably wealthy.
- She [Kate Spade] would come to attach her name to a bounty of products, and ideas: home goods and china and towels and so much else, all of it poised atop the thin line between accessibility and luxury.
To offer a monetary reward for the capturing or killing of.
The neighborhood
- neighborboon
- neighborbounteous
- neighborbounteously
- neighborbounteousness
- neighborbounteth
- neighborbountith
- neighborbountyhed
- neighborunbounteous
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bounty. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA