Fond Meaning
/fɒnd/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjHaving a liking or affection (for).
adjAffectionate.
Sentence Examples
Are you fond of swimming?
What are you fond of?
I have grown quite fond of her.
CEFR Practice Quiz
She was especially ____ of old books, spending hours browsing dusty shelves at the library.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She has very ____ memories of the summers she spent at her grandmother's house by the lake.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English fond, fonned, past participle of fonnen (“to be foolish, be simple, dote”), equivalent to fon + -ed. More at fon.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"more fond on her than she upon her love"
— c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
"a great traveller, and fond of telling his adventures"
— 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:
"“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas.[…]”"
— 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tragedy in Dartmoor Terrace”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
"If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent
to offend, for if it touch not you, it comes near
nobody."
— c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
"Grant I may never prove so fond
To trust man on his oath or bond."
— c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She was especially ____ of old books, spending hours browsing dusty shelves at the library.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She has very ____ memories of the summers she spent at her grandmother's house by the lake.