different between abounder vs abound

English

Etymology

abound +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??ba?n.d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??ba?n.d?/

Noun

abounder (plural abounders)

1. One who has plenty, one who abounds (in something). [First attested in the mid 18^th century.]
   • 1755, Edward Young, The Centaur Not Fabulous, London: A. Millar and R. & J. Dodsley, 3rd edition, Letter III. “On Pleasure,” p. 121,^[1]

     Say, ye strangers to Care, and abounders in Mirth! what will he do, when he finds himself still subsisting in a state, where none of those Pleasures, for which alone he wished to subsist, can possibly any longer subsist with him?

   • 1876, Robert Browning, “Pisgah-Sights” in Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper, London: Smith, Elder, p. 81,^[2]

     Wanters, abounders,

     March, in gay mixture,

     Men, my surrounders!

     I am the fixture.

   • 1895, William Morris and A. J. Wyatt (translators), The Tale of Beowulf, Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats, London: Longmans, Green, 2nd edition, 1898, Part 16, p. 58,^[3]

     Then bow’d unto bench there the abounders in riches

     And were fain of their fill.

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Anagrams

• Euroband, be around

English

Etymology

• First attested around 1325.
• From Middle English abounden, abounde, from Old French abonder, abunder, from Latin abund?re, present active infinitive of abund? (“overflow”), which comes from ab (“from, down from”) + und? (“surge, swell, rise in waves, move in waves”), from unda (“wave”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??ba?nd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??ba?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Verb

abound (third-person singular simple present abounds, present participle abounding, simple past and past participle abounded)

1. (intransitive) To be full to overflowing. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be wealthy. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 18^th century.]
3. (intransitive) To be highly productive.
4. (intransitive) To be present or available in large numbers; to be plentiful. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]

   Wild animals abound wherever man does not stake his claim.

   • Where sin abounded grace did much more abound.

5. (intransitive) To revel in. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 18^th century.]
6. (intransitive) To be copiously supplied
   • 1858-1860, George Rawlinson, The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World

     the wild boar, which abounds both in Azerbijan and in the country about Hamadan

Usage notes

• (copiously supplied): Abound is followed by in or with.

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Translations

See also

• bountiful

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