- a high or long jump
- The dog cleared the gate in one bound.
Word Originnoun early 16th cent. (as a noun): from French bond (noun), bondir (verb) ‘resound’, later ‘rebound’, from late Latin bombitare, from Latin bombus ‘humming’.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See bound in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee bound in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishby/in leaps and bounds
- very quickly; in large amounts
- Her health has improved in leaps and bounds.
- His technique has come on in leaps and bounds this season.
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