Bounty

Quick meaning: Bounty is a noun meaning (uncountable) Generosity; also (countable) an act of generosity.

Meaning

(uncountable) Generosity; also (countable) an act of generosity.

More Meanings

1. (countable) Something given liberally; a gift.
2. (countable) A reward for some specific act, especially one given by an authority or a government.
3. (countable, figuratively) An abundance or wealth.
4. (transitive) To offer a monetary reward for the capturing or killing of.

Example Sentences

[H]is [Henry I, Duke of Guise's] gifts, though conferred for the interest of his ambition, appeared always scattered with an easy bounty.

In recent years, AGeS, the Alliance Geological Service, has offered bounties to private individuals or teams willing to perform mineralogical surveys on the frontier.

The enervating character of the climate, combined with the bounty of nature, which supplies the limited wants of the natives, in return for little labor, has from time immemorial produced a population within these zones essentially inefficient as compared with that of the temperate zone.

She embraced Elizabeth and said in a voice of half-suppressed emotion, "Farewell, sweet lady, dearest Elizabeth, my beloved and only friend; may heaven, in its bounty, bless and preserve you; may this be the last misfortune that you will ever suffer! Live, and be happy, and make others so."

Word Forms

• bounties
• bountying
• bountied

Synonyms for bounty

Depending on context, synonyms include liberality, munificence, bounteousness, bountihood, boon, gratuity.

Antonyms for bounty

Common opposites include frugality, parsimony, sparingness, stinginess.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include premium, bountifulness, bounteousness, amplitude, generosity, goodness.

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