[bund] n [Hindi band, fr. Per] (1810) 1: an embankment used esp. in India to control the flow of water
2: an embanked thoroughfare along a river or the sea esp. in the Far East
[2]bund n, often cap [Yiddish bund & G Bund, fr. MHG bunt; akin to OE byndel] (1850): a political association: as a: a Jewish socialist organization founded in czarist Russia in 1897 b: a pro-Nazi German-American organization of the 1930s -- bund.ist n, often cap