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say it: BAHN-ding
bonding is a noun meaning "a close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child)". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child)
(dentistry) a technique for repairing a tooth; resinous material is applied to the surface of the tooth where it adheres to the tooth's enamel
dentistry
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bonding come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.