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BOUND definition: 1. certain or extremely likely to happen: 2. to be seriously intending to do something: 3. I am…. Learn more.
The meaning of BOUND is fastened by or as if by a band : confined. How to use bound in a sentence.
BOUND meaning: 1. certain or extremely likely to happen: 2. to be seriously intending to do something: 3. I am…. Learn more.
verb. simple past tense and past participle of bind. adjective. tied; in bonds: a bound prisoner. made fast as if by a band or bond: She is bound to her family. secured within a cover, as a book. under a legal or moral obligation: He is bound by the terms of the contract. Synonyms: compelled, obliged, liable. destined; sure; certain:
1. To set a limit to; confine: a high wall that bounded the prison yard; lives that were bounded by poverty. 2. To constitute the boundary or limit of: a city park that was bounded by busy streets. 3. To identify the boundaries of; demarcate. v.intr. To border on another place, state, or country. Idioms: in/within bounds Sports.
To bound is to jump or hop — usually as you run. Bound can also mean to go or to plan to go, especially to a certain destination, as in being bound for New York or homeward-bound.
BOUND definition: 1. certain to do something, or certain to happen: 2. closely connected with something: 3. having…. Learn more.
Definition of bound adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If you say that something is bound to happen, you mean that you are sure it will happen, because it is a natural consequence of something that is already known or exists.
In such a hurry, she was bound to leave something behind that she would need later. I would rather have a book bound by a hard cover than paperback. The two bound men were led off to the master's house.
