bounty

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman bounté, Old French bonté (“goodness”) (modern French bonté), from Latin bonitātem, accusative singular of bonitās (“goodness”), from bonus (“good”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaʊnti/
  • (US) IPA^(key): [ˈbaʊn(ɾ)i]
• Hyphenation: boun‧ty
• Rhymes: -aʊnti

bounty (countable and uncountable, plural bounties)

1. Generosity.
2. Something given liberally.
3. A reward for some specific act, especially one given by a government or authority.
4. (nautical, historical) Until 1857, money paid to volunteers for serving in the British navy in time of war.
5. An abundance or wealth.
   • "Kate Spade, Whose Handbags Carried Women Into Adulthood, Is Dead at 55" by Jonah Engel Bromwich, Vanessa Friedman and Matthew Schneier, The New York Times (2018)

     She would come to attach her name to a bounty of products, and ideas: home goods and china and towels and so much else, all of it poised atop the thin line between accessibility and luxury.

• bounty hunter

• boon