verb
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To have a foolish affection for, to be fond of.
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To caress; to fondle.
adjective
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(chiefly with of) Having a liking or affection (for).
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Affectionate.
example
a fond farewell
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Indulgent.
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I have fond grandparents who spoil me.
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Outlandish; foolish; silly.
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Foolish; simple; weak.
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Doted on; regarded with affection.
Examples of fond in a Sentence
Your aunt and uncle seem pretty fond of you.
I didn't know you were so fond of horses.
Though she's a lady, she's very fond of hunting.
Princess Mary was particularly fond of her.
They were fond of asking one another that question.
I have grown so fond of her.
She is so kind and Mamma is so fond of her!
Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing.
He was also fond of hunting, and for this reason usually lived at Adrianople.
They are fond of singing and dancing, and are a gentle-mannered and hospitable folk.
He was extremely fond of music, and was himself a fair pianist.
Unlike Laura Bridgman, she is fond of gentlemen, and we notice that she makes friends with a gentleman sooner than with a lady.
But then, they had never been that fond of Lori, and they all adored Carmen.
He was fond of music and of art, and kept statues in Hampton Court Gardens which scandalized good puritans.
If you behave, and don't scare the little pigs, I'm sure they'll grow very fond of you.
At present I read nothing but Italian, which I am immoderately fond of, particularly of the poetry..
Hadrian was fond of the society of learned men - poets, scholars, rhetoricians and philosophers - whom he alternately humoured and ridiculed.
Sometimes he thinks that they came direct from God, like all good things, but he is also fond of maintaining that many of Plato's best thoughts were borrowed from the Hebrew prophets; and he makes the same statement in regard to the wisdom of the other philosophers.
I went downstairs and got some cake (she is very fond of sweets).
Al Mansur loved poetry and was fond of hearing poets repeat their own verses.
Anatole was sincerely fond of Dolokhov for his cleverness and audacity.
She seemed to be fond not so much of individuals as of the family as a whole.
I was very fond of bananas, and one night I dreamed that I found a long string of them in the dining-room, near the cupboard, all peeled and deliciously ripe, and all I had to do was to stand under the string and eat as long as I could eat.
At first she was suckled by a she-bear, and then saved by huntsmen, among whom she grew up to be skilled with the bow, swift, and fond of the chase, like the virgin goddess Artemis.
The first settlers on the site of Fond du Lac arrived about 1835.
All classes high and low are fond of the religious festivals, the principal of which, the Dasahra, occurs in October, when the first harvest of the year has been secured and the second crops sown.
He is not always very critical, and he is passionately fond of allegorical interpretations, but these were the faults of his age.
These deer are particularly fond of horsechestnuts, which the stags are said to endeavour to procure by striking at the branches with their antlers.
He is particularly fond of arguments about numbers.
I'm fond of it," said "Uncle."
Hardy, simple and industrious, fond of music, kind-hearted, and with a strangely artistic taste in dress, these people possess in a wonderful degree the secret of cheerful contentment.
The new king was not fond of "boetry," but Queen Caroline was, and international jealousy was pleased at the thought of welcoming a distinguished exile from French illiberality.
By habit a Catholic, but above all things fond of power, she was determined to prevent the Protestants from getting the upper hand, and almost equally resolved not to allow them to be utterly crushed, in order to use them as a counterpoise to the Guises.
As he was keen at his books and fond of music he was destined for the Church, and when eight years old was sent to school at Wesen, where he lived with his uncle, the dean.
At North Fond du Lac, just beyond the city limits, are car-shops of the two last-mentioned railways, and in the city are manufactories of machinery, automobiles, wagons and carriages, awnings, leather, beer, flour, refrigerators, agricultural implements, toys and furniture.
The Russian commander-in-chief states in his work on the war that Bilderling became engaged a fond instead of gradually withdrawing as Kuropatkin intended, and at any rate it is unquestioned that in consequence of the serious position of affairs on the western wing, not only did Stakelberg use his reserves to support Bilderling, when the 12th division of Kuroki's army was almost at its last gasp and must have yielded to fresh pressure, but Kuropatkin himself suspended the general offensive on the 13th of October.
The city's extensive street railway system connects with interurban electric lines leading to Waukesha, Oconomowoc and Watertown on the west, Sheboygan and Fond du Lac on the north, and Chicago and intermediate points along the lake shore on the south.
Prince Gorchakov did not want a radical solution involving a great European war, but he was too fond of ephemeral popularity to stem the current of popular excitement.
It is very fond of the ordinary domestic cattle, which in the plains of India are generally weak, half-starved, undersized creatures.
He was also fond of drawing as an amusement in his leisure hours; and Colerus had seen a sketch-book full of such drawings representing persons of Spinoza's acquaintance, one of them being a likeness of himself in the character of Masaniello.
All Persians are fond of animals, and do not treat them badly when their own property.
They are also fond of grapes and other fruits, and are thus the pests of the vineyard as well as the poultryyard.
For himself he was young and fond of pleasure.
But instead of all that--here he was, the wealthy husband of an unfaithful wife, a retired gentleman-in-waiting, fond of eating and drinking and, as he unbuttoned his waistcoat, of abusing the government a bit, a member of the Moscow English Club, and a universal favorite in Moscow society.
No matter what happened, he would always be more than a fond memory - maybe a first love.
He was the last of seven French popes in succession who had done so, and had perpetuated for seventy-three years what ecclesiastical writers are fond of terming "the Babylonian captivity of the church."
Like Luther, Arndt was very fond of the little anonymous book, Deutsche Theologie.
Hill, whose men had fought the battle of South Mountain and had already been three times engaged a fond on this day, proper support must have enabled the Federals to crush Lee's centre, but Franklin and Porter in reserve were not allowed by McClellan to move forward and the opportunity passed.
It is clear enough that, although, like her father, she was fond of ritual, she was absolutely devoid of the religious temperament, and that her ecclesiastical preferences were dictated by political considerations.
He was fond of reading, and before the end of his apprenticeship had read more than a thousand volumes.