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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bourdon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??d?n/

Noun

bourdon (plural bourdons)

1. (music, archaic) The burden or bass of a melody.
   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     The earth tremors resumed and made a bourdon to the loud psalms that they sang, interspersed with the odd ode of Horace recited by Silas.

2. The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
3. The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, p. 5:

     The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.

4. The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.
5. A large, low-pitched bell not part of a diatonically tuned ring of bells.
6. A bumblebee, genus Bombus.
7. A pilgrim's staff.

Translations

Anagrams

• obround

French

Etymology

From Middle French bourdon (“honeybee, bumblebee”), from Old French bordon (“bumblebee, drone, beetle, insect”), from Medieval Latin burdo (c. C.E. 1000), first recorded in the Homilies of King Ælfric, glossed by Old English dora (“bumblebee”). Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Frankish *bordo, *burdo (“beetle, insect”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub", literally, "swelling”), from *b?s- (“to erupt, burst, flow rapidly”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??s- (“to move quickly”), related to Old English budda (“beetle”), Middle Low German buddech (“thick, swollen”), Low German budde (“louse, grub”). See bug.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?.d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

bourdon m (plural bourdons)

1. bumblebee (species of bee)
2. (music) drone
3. (figuratively, colloquial) blues (feeling of sadness)

   Synonym: cafard

Derived terms

• faux-bourdon
• bourdonner
• bourdonnement

Further reading

• “bourdon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French bourdon (“bee”).

Noun

bourdon

1. bee, wasp

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Norman

Etymology

From Old French bordon (“bumblebee, drone, beetle, insect”), from Medieval Latin burdo.

Noun

bourdon m (plural bourdons)

1. (Jersey) bumblebee

Synonyms

• bourde

Derived terms

English

Etymology

From "bourbon whiskey", originally "Bourbon whiskey", of disputed provenance. Generally taken to derive from Bourbon County, Kentucky, but possibly also from Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Both derive from the French Bourbon dynasty, named for the lordship of French Bourbon l'Archambault. The town's name derives from Borvo, a local Celtic deity associated with hot springs, from Proto-Celtic *borvo (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rewh?- (“to be hot, boil”). See also Borvo.

Pronunciation

whiskey

• IPA^(key): /b??(?)b?n/

  Rhymes: -??(r)b?n

biscuit

• IPA^(key): /?b??(?)b?n/, /b??(?)b?n/

  Rhymes: -??(?)b?n, -??(r)b?n

Noun

bourbon (countable and uncountable, plural bourbons)

1. A whiskey distilled from a mixture of grains in which at least 51% is corn, aged in charred, new oak barrels. Made in the United States.
2. A serving of bourbon whiskey.
3. A Bourbon biscuit.

Synonyms

• bourbon whiskey
• Bourbon whiskey

Translations

References

Spanish

Noun

bourbon m (plural bóurbones)

1. bourbon