English - Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbæn.dn̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈbæn.dn̩/
• (InE) IPA^(key): /əˈbæn.ɖən/

English - Etymology 1

• From Middle English abandounen, from Old French abandoner, formed from a (“at, to”) + bandon (“jurisdiction, control”), from Late Latin bannum (“proclamation”), bannus, bandum, from Frankish *ban, *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, command”) (compare English ban), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-, *bʰa- (“to speak”). See also ban, banal.
• Displaced Middle English forleten ("to abandon"; from Old English forlǣtan, anforlǣtan; see forlet) and Middle English forleven ("to leave behind, abandon"; from Old English forlǣfan; see forleave).

Verb

abandon (third-person singular simple present abandons, present participle abandoning, simple past and past participle abandoned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 16^th century.]
2. (transitive) To give up control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
   • Macaulay

     He abandoned himself […] to his favourite vice.

3. (transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]
4. (transitive) To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility. [First attested in the late 15^th century.]
   • (Can we date this quote?) I. Taylor:

     Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned.

   Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Attested from the mid 16^th century until the mid 17^th century.]
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, act I, scene ii:

     Being all this time abandoned from your bed.

   • Udall

     that he might […] abandon them from him

6. (transitive) To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish. [First attested in the mid 18^th century.]
7. (transitive) To surrender to the insurer the insured item, so as to claim a total loss.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• abandonment
• abandonware

Translations

English - Etymology 2

• From French, from Old French abandon, from abondonner.

Noun

abandon (plural abandons)

1. A yielding to natural impulses or inhibitions; freedom from artificial constraint, with loss of appreciation of consequences. [Early 19^th century.]
   • 1954, Gore Vidal, Messiah:

     I envy those chroniclers who assert with reckless but sincere abandon: 'I was there. I saw it happen. It happened thus.'

   • 2007, Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich, I am Legend:

     They needed to have an abandon in their performance that you just can’t get out of people in the middle of the night when they’re barefoot.

2. (obsolete) abandonment; relinquishment.

Synonyms

• (giving up to impulses): wantonness, unrestraint, libertinism, abandonment, profligacy, unconstraint

Translations

Adverb

abandon (comparative more abandon, superlative most abandon)

1. (obsolete, not comparable) Freely; entirely.
   • 1330, Arthour and Merlin:

     His ribbes and scholder fel adoun,/Men might se the liver abandoun.

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 2
2. ^ Christine A. Lindberg (editor), The Oxford College Dictionary, 2nd edition (Spark Publishing, 2007 [2002], ISBN 978-1-4114-0500-4), page 1
3. ^ Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], ISBN 0550142304), page 2.

French - Pronunciation

• (FR) IPA^(key): /a.bã.dõ/
• abandon (France, Paris) IPA: [a.bã.dõ]
• Rhymes: -dõ

French - Noun

abandon m (plural abandons)

1. surrender
2. abandonment
3. (uncountable) complete neglect

Derived terms

• abandon scolaire
• à l'abandon

French - External Links

• “abandon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian - Etymology

French abandon.

Romanian - Noun

abandon n

1. abandonment
2. renouncement

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