Adjective

(er)

(chiefly, with of) Having a liking or affection (for).

* Shakespeare

more fond on her than she upon her love

* Irving

a great traveller, and fond of telling his adventures

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a fond farewell

a fond mother or wife

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I have fond grandparents who spoil me.

; foolish; silly.

Your fond dreams of flying to Jupiter have been quashed by the facts of reality.

(obsolete) Foolish; simple; weak.

* Shakespeare

Grant I may never prove so fond / To trust man on his oath or bond.

(obsolete) Doted on; regarded with affection.

* Byron

Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Bearing fronds.

* 1909 , ,

Then light and swift through the jungle trees / We swung in our airy flights, / Or breathed in the balms of the fronded palms / In the hush of the moonless nights;

* 1912 , , Chapter 5: The Trees of the Valley,

The branches, outspread in flat plumes and, beautifully fronded , sweep gracefully downward and outward, .

* 1966 , Malacological Society of Australia, Malacological Society of Australia , Issues 1-10, page 27,

On the other hand there is in the author's collection a specimen with single nodules only from 40 fathoms off Wollongong, but more fronded than most shore dwelling forms,

* 2008 , Peter Sercombe, Bernard Sellato, Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo's Hunter-Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century , page 60,

Headaches, as well as the unease consequent upon bad dreams, can be relieved by making a fronded stick with a rudimentary face (butun ); the pain, or the inauspiciousness, is transferred to this stick, which is left in the forest,