different between sounder vs bounder

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?nd?(?)/
• Rhymes: -a?nd?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English *soundere, from Old English ?esundra, from Proto-Germanic *sundizô, equivalent to sound +? -er (comparative suffix).

Adjective

sounder

1. comparative form of sound: more sound

Etymology 2

From Middle English soundar, sownere, equivalent to sound +? -er.

Noun

sounder (plural sounders)

1. Something, or someone who makes a sound.
2. An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
3. (medicine, dated, plural only) A stethoscope.

Derived terms

• depth sounder
• echo sounder
• telegraph sounder

Translations

Etymology 3

From French sonder

Noun

sounder (plural sounders)

1. (nautical) A device for making soundings at sea.
2. (nautical) A person who takes soundings.
3. (fishing) A fishfinder.

Etymology 4

Old English sunor

Noun

sounder (plural sounders)

1. A group of wild boar.
2. A young boar.

Anagrams

• Oresund, enduros, resound, undoers, unsored

English

Alternative forms

• boundure

Etymology

From bound +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?nd?(?)

Noun

bounder (plural bounders)

1. Something that bounds or jumps.
2. (Britain, dated) A dishonourable man; a cad.
3. A social climber.
4. That which limits; a boundary.
   • 1638 Martin Fotherby (Iacob Blome: London) Atheomastix p.269:

     Let the mountaine Pyrenaeus diuide the French, and Spaniards: and the wildernesse of Sand the Aethiopians, from Aegyptians. And in like manner also be all other Kingdomes: they are bound within their bounders, as it were in bands; and shut-vp within their limits, as it were in prison.

5. (Britain, obsolete, colloquial) A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet

Translations

Anagrams

• rebound, unbored, unrobed