fonds
SayFONDZUS/fɑndz/UK/fɒndz/
Pluralfonds
- 1All the records and papers created by one person or organization, kept together as a group.
Like keeping all of one family's letters and photos in a single box instead of mixing them with everyone else's.
The museum keeps each family's fonds together in one section.
Archivists organized the fonds by the office that produced the papers.
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- 2Plural of fond. Use this form when talking about more than one fond.
She seared the duck and the pork in two pans, then mixed both fonds into one sauce.
Different roasts leave different fonds in the roasting pan.
Note
fonds is a form of fond
fond, noun: The brown bits left stuck in a pan after cooking meat or vegetables. Full entry
- Forms
- fondfonds plural
- Spelling
- fond → fonds: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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Origin
It comes from the French word "fonds." It is a doublet of "fund."