fond

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/fɒnd/

adjective

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adjective
Having strong liking or affection for someone or something.
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adjective
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Indulgent, doting.

Examples

I have grown quite fond of her.
Are you fond of swimming?

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 3

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Extra meanings

Having a liking or affection (for).
Outlandish; foolish; silly.
Foolish; simple; weak.

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What are you fond of?
I am fond of this song!
a fond mother or wife

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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 Origin...
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
To denote archival material collected from Ukrainian archives I have used the Ukrainian system of classification (i.e. fond, opys, sprava and arkush). I have used the Russian system for material from Russian archives (i.e. fond, opis, delo, stranitsa). I have also provided a glossary of terms used for Ukrainian, Russian or Polish terms at the back of the thesis for easy reference.
1999, Graham Kee Lee Tan, Village social organisation and peasant action: Right-bank Ukraine during the revolution 1917–1923 (doctoral dissertation), London: University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Preface & Acknowledgements, page 3
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]

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English fond, fonned, past participle of fonnen (“to be foolish, be simple, dote”), equivalent to fon + -ed. More at fon.

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adjective

She was especially blank of old books, spending hours browsing dusty shelves at the library.