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Definition: Meaning of, band in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / band /

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Singular Plural
band bands
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  1. [also + plural verb] British English a group of musicians, especially a group that plays popular music
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  2. a group of people formed because of a common belief or purpose
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  3. a range of numbers within a system
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  4. a flat, narrow piece of something with one end joined to the other to form a circle
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  5. a narrow area of light, colour, land etc that is different from the areas around it
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  6. technical a range of radio signals [=  waveband]
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Prsesent Past Past Participle
band banded banded
Present Participle Third Person Singular
banding bands
[transitive usually passive]
  1. British English to put people or things into different groups, usually according to income, value, or price
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band used in phrases

  • Band Aid
    1. an organization set up by Bob Geldof in 1984 to collect money for people dying of hunger in Ethiopia. This was done by getting many famous popular musicians to make a record together called Do They Know It's Christmas?, and by organizing the LIVE AID concerts in London and Philadelphia.
  • Band of Partisans (noun)
    1. an extremist Palestinian Sunni group active in Lebanon in the early 1990s that advocates Salafism; responsible for murders and bombings; seeks to overthrow the Lebanese government and control Palestinian refugee camps; funded by al-Qaeda
  • Band-Aid (noun)
    1. trademark especially American English a piece of thin material that is stuck to the skin to cover cuts and other small wounds [=  plaster British English]
    2. a Band-Aid solution to a problem is temporary and will not solve the problem - used to show disapproval
  • Citizens' Band (noun)
    1. CB
  • absorption band (noun)
    1. a dark band in the spectrum of white light that has been transmitted through a substance that exhibits absorption at selective wavelengths
  • arm band (noun)
    1. a band worn around the arm for decoration
  • band aid (noun)
    1. hurried repair
  • band oneself (verb)
    1. attach oneself to a group
  • band-tail pigeon (noun)
    1. wild pigeon of western North America; often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon
  • band-tailed pigeon (noun)
    1. wild pigeon of western North America; often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon
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band used in phrasal verbs

  • band together (phrasal verb)
    1. to come together as a group in order to achieve something
  • bandy around (phrasal verb)
    1. to mention something a lot, usually without thinking much about what you are saying
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