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Definition: Abound |
AboundVerb1. Be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities. 2. Be in a state of movement or action; "The room abounded with screaming children"; "The garden bristled with toddlers". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "abound" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Note: Abound \A*bound"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Abounded; present participle verb or noun Abounding.]. (references) |
Synonyms: AboundSynonyms: bristle (v), burst (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sufficiency | Abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down; pour, pour in; swarm; bristle with; superabound. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Abound |
| English words defined with "abound": Abounded, Argilliferous ♦ Buckeye State ♦ Exuberate ♦ hunting ground ♦ Murex ♦ Snew ♦ To abound with, To carry coals to Newcastle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "abound": Akrabbim ♦ Buttercups ♦ Cable, Country ♦ Dirt ♦ Garden, Guttapercha ♦ Lemon Soles. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "abound": Superabound. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Bats Abound (1999) Hollywood '94: Butts Abound (1993) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Waterfalls abound throughout Tracy Arm Fjord. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Polychaete worms like this bloodworm, Glycera sp., abound in salt marsh sediments. Some of these segmented worms are free living while others are tube builders. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
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| "Misc 4" by Debbie L Manville Commentary: "Colors abound, mixed by nature, compiled by Photoshop." |
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| Author | Quotation |
C.a. Mason | If God hath made this world so fair Where sin and death abound; How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found. |
Lord Chesterfield | Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. |
| Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | However, factories of chemical products abound in Faubourg Saint Marceau |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Theories about what causes Crohn's disease abound, but none has been proven. (references) | |
Business | Good opportunities abound for U.S. firms in this subsector. (references) | |
Although fiercely competitive, opportunities still abound in the provision of primary outpatient HCS for both foreigners and wealthy Chinese in large coastal cities. (references) | ||
The textile industry is in the midst of a dramatic change and it is said that opportunities abound for U.S. clothing suppliers, U.S. retail chains and U.S. Department stores. (references) | ||
Economic History | Uae | Opportunities abound for those hotel chains that franchise their name. (references) |
Panama | Pockets of chronic high unemployment, notably in Colon, Panama's second city, abound. (references) | |
Ukraine | Conflict of interests abound as many public servants continue to own businesses while serving. (references) | |
Trade | Ukraine | Nonetheless, complaints of foreign investors in Ukraine abound about failures on the part of Ukrainian tax authorities to apply these treaties properly. (references) |
Travel | Nigeria | Deep ruts and potholes abound. (references) |
Philippines | Tailors abound, and laundry and dry-cleaning facilities are available. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Bolivia | Miners work without respirators in mines where toxic gases and cancer-causing dusts abound; buy their own supplies, including dynamite; have no scheduled rest periods; and many work underground for up to 24 hours continuously. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | In our nation work and wealth abound. |
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| "Abound" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 62.40% of the time. "Abound" is used about 125 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 62.4% | 78 | 37,656 |
| Noun (singular) | 27.2% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 10.4% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 125 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "abound": abound in ♦ abound with ♦ To abound in ♦ To abound with. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "abound": over-abound. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
abound | 34 |
abound catalog | 7 |
abound fungicide | 4 |
abound sound | 3 |
abound home shopping | 3 |
abound shopping.co.uk | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "abound"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ka me bollëk, gëlon (come in multitude, crawl, flow, swarm, teem, throng). (various references) | |
Arabic | زخر (teem), عزز (bear out, boost, build, carry, cement, confirm, consolidate, corroborate, enhance, extend, foster, help, promote, ram, reinforce, sustain, underpin). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | богат съм, пълен съм, изобилствувам (be infested, exuberate, infest, teem). (various references) | |
Chinese | 盛产 (Abounded, Abounding). (various references) | |
Czech | oplývat (brim over, teem), hemžit se (crawl, Eddy, shoal, swarm, teem), být bohatý na co. (various references) | |
Dutch | zwermen (swarm), wriemelen (itch, swarm), wemelen (swarm), krioelen (swarm), krielen (swarm), in overvloed aanwezig zijn, in overvloed aanwezig zýn. (various references) | |
Esperanto | abundi, svarmi (swarm). (various references) | |
Faeroese | tyrpast (swarm), flykkjast (accumulate, form a group, swarm). (various references) | |
Finnish | uhkua (brim over, flow). (various references) | |
French | abonder, grouiller (mill about), fourmiller (mill about). (various references) | |
German | wimmeln (seethe, swarm, teem, to swarm). (various references) | |
Greek | αφθονώ (be legion, teem). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשפוע (discharge, emanate, flow, teem), לשרוץ (be infested, breed, crawl, infest, pullulate, swarm, teem), להשרץ (be multiplied). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bõvelkedik (exuberate, teem), bôvelkedik. (various references) | |
Icelandic | vera til í miklu mæli. (various references) | |
Indonesian | berlimpahan (be in abundance, be plentinful), berlimpah (abundance, abundant, over abundance). (various references) | |
Italian | abbondare (plentiful, teem). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 資源に富む (to abound in natural resources), 諸説紛紛 (divergent opinions abound, opinion is divided), 諸説紛々 (divergent opinions abound, opinion is divided). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しょせつふんぷん (divergent opinions abound, opinion is divided), しげんにとむ (to abound in natural resources). (various references) | |
Korean | 풍부하. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abounday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | abundar (exuberate, swarm, teem). (various references) | |
Romanian | abunda (be in plenty, be plentiful, superabound). (various references) | |
Russian | изобиловать (be rich, bristle with, exuberate, teem). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrveti nečim, obilovati. (various references) | |
Spanish | abundar (teem). (various references) | |
Swedish | flöda över av (ooze), finnas i överflöd, överflöda. (various references) | |
Turkish | kaynamak (boil, boil away, bubble up, come to the boil, conglutinate, join, seethe, spill over with, swarm, teem, weld, well), dolu olmak (be filled with, be full, bristle, crawl, spill over with, teem), bol olmak (grow on trees, teem), çok olmak (mount up). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рясніти (bristle, over-abound), мати багато чогось, бути багатим на щось (over-abound, overflow). (various references) | |
Welsh | amlhau (increase, multiply), ymhelaethu (enlarge), heigio (shoal, team). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ab-, abundare, adfuit, affluam, affluant, affluatis, affluens, affluent, affluentes, afflues, affluet, affluit, exubero, exundo. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | redonder. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | soronder. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 12 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai dia to plhqunqhnai thn anomian yughsetai h agaph twn pollwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et quoniam abundabit iniquitas refrigescet caritas multorum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & for-þam þe unrihtwysnesse rixað manegera lufe äcolað. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And for wickidnesse schal `be plenteuouse, the charite of manye schal wexe coold; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And because iniquite shall have the vpper hande the love of many shall abate. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And because iniquity will abound, the love of many will become cold. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And because wrongdoing will be increased, the love of most people will become cold. |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 24, Verse 12 |
| Cebuano | Ug kay mosanay man ang kadautan, mobugnaw ang gugma sa kadaghanan. |
| Croatian | Razmahat æe se bezakonje i ohladnjeti ljubav mnogih. |
| Danish | Og fordi Lovløsheden bliver mangfoldig, vil Kærligheden blive kold hos de fleste. |
| Dutch | En omdat de ongerechtigheid vermenigvuldigd zal worden, zo zal de liefde van velen verkouden. |
| Finnish | Ja sentähden, että laittomuus pääsee valtaan, kylmenee useimpien rakkaus. |
| French | Et, parce que l`iniquité se sera accrue, la charité du plus grand nombre se refroidira. |
| German | und dieweil die Ungerechtigkeit wird überhandnehmen, wird die Liebe in vielen erkalten. |
| Hungarian | És mivelhogy a gonoszság megsokasodik, a szeretet sokakban meghidegül. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kejahatan akan menjalar sebegitu hebat sampai banyak orang tidak dapat lagi mengasihi. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan sebab makin bertambah dosa, maka kasih orang banyak tawarlah kelak. |
| Italian | per il dilagare dell'iniquità, l'amore di molti si raffredderà. |
| Latvian | Un tâpçc mîlestîba daudzos atdzisîs, jo netaisnîba bûs pârpilnîbâ. |
| Manx Gaelic | As er-yn-oyr dy jean olkys bishaghey, nee graih-ghiastyllagh ymmodee feayraghey. |
| Maori | A, i te kino ka hua, ka matoke haere te aroha o te tini tangata. |
| Norwegian | Og fordi urettferdigheten tar overhånd, skal kjærligheten bli kold hos de fleste. |
| Portuguese | e, por se multiplicar a iniquidade, o amor de muitos esfriará. |
| Rumanian | Wi, din pricina knmulyirii fqrqdelegii, dragostea celor mai mulyi se va rqci. |
| Russian | Й, РП РТЙЮЙОЕ ХНОПЦЕОЙС ВЕЪЪБЛПОЙС, ЧП НОПЗЙИ ПИМБДЕЕФ МАВПЧШ; |
| Shuar | Tura Tunáa ti ákui nuamtak anenaichartatui. |
| Spanish | y por haberse multiplicado la maldad, se enfriará el amor de muchos. |
| Swahili | Kwa sababu ya ongezeko la uhalifu, upendo wa watu wengi utafifia. |
| Swedish | Och därigenom att laglösheten förökas, skall kärleken hos de flesta kallna. |
| Uma | Nto'u toe, kada'aa tauna katedoo-donihia, duu' -na mere' -mi ahi' tauna to wori'. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "abound": abounded, abounding, abounds. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "abound": superabound. (additional references) | |
Words containing "abound": superabounded, superabounding, superabounds. (additional references) | |
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"Abound" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abanu, Abbondio, Abboud, abend, Abiodun, abon, abond, Abondio, abood, aboon, aboud, abourd, abun, Abune, afount, Albourne, Aubonne, avond, awound, ayonua, ubound. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "abound" (pronounced ubou"nd) |
| 4 | -b ou" n d | bound, inbound, rebound, unbound. |
| 3 | -ou" n d | aground, around, astound, browned, confound, crowned, downed, drowned, expound, found, frowned, ground, hound, impound, mound, newfound, pound, profound, propound, redound, renowned, resound, round, sound, surround, ultrasound, unsound, unwound, wound. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-n-o-u" | |
-1 letter: bound. | |
-2 letters: band, baud, bond, bund, daub, dona, undo. | |
-3 letters: abo, ado, and, bad, ban, boa, bod, bud, bun, dab, don, dub, dun, duo, nab, nob, nod, nub, oud, udo. | |
-4 letters: ab, ad, an, ba, bo, do, na, no, nu, od, on, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-n-o-u" | |
+1 letter: abounds, bausond. | |
+2 letters: abounded, airbound, baudrons, boundary, subnodal, undoable. | |
+3 letters: abduction, abounding, eastbound, hardbound, ombudsman, soundable, subdeacon. | |
+4 letters: abductions, background, baudronses, boundaries, brassbound, dubitation, earthbound, floribunda, nondurable, paperbound, punchboard, roundabout, roundtable, soundboard, subdeacons, subpoenaed, unabsorbed. | |
+5 letters: aboveground, adumbration, backgrounds, badmouthing, beardtongue, counterbade, demountable, dubitations, floribundas, nondurables, obnubilated, outbalanced, outdebating, paperbounds, punchboards, roundabouts, roundtables, soundboards, subaudition, subdominant, subordinate, superabound, unadoptable, unavoidable, unavoidably, undoubtable. | |
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