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Genuine, real
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bona fide
Word definitions for bona fide in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. undertaken in good faith; "a bona fide offer" not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs taken in a veritable bull ring" [syn: authentic , unquestionable , veritable ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, Latin, literally "in good faith," ablative of bona fides "good faith" (see faith ). Originally used as an adverb, later (18c.) also as an adjective. The opposite is mala fide .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a bona fide job offer EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But during this season, which has failed to turn up one bona fide breakaway hit, it seems harder than ever.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bona fide may refer to: Bona fides meaning " good faith " Bonafide (Maxi Priest album) , 1990 Bonafide (Jon B album) , 1995 Bona Fide (Wishbone Ash album) , 2002 Bone-A-Fide , 2005 album by Christian rapper T-Bone Bonafide (band) , Swedish hard rock band ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 In good faith. 2 genuine; not counterfeit.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bona fide \Bo"na fi"de\ [L.] In or with good faith; without fraud or deceit; real or really; actual or actually; genuine or genuinely; as, you must proceed bona fide; a bona fide purchaser or transaction. [1913 Webster] ||
Usage examples of bona fide.
Since he was a bona fide professional actor who at one time had made his living acting in the theater, he put enormous stock into what sorcerers called the shamanistic theater.
The Bona Fide plant and the surrounding area never even felt the tremor -your quake deflectors worked perfectly!
Since they had already been stolen, I decided the higher morality was to make sure they were put to use by a bona fide commissioned of.
Doleo bona fide, Platonem omnium heraeticorum condimentarium factum.
My explanation was that I wanted bona fide information about the uses of plants, thus I had asked him to be my informant.
Now that he was a bona fide writer in his own mind, Ollie could ponder such deep imponderables.
Blunt, but he probably thinks that you're a bona fide gentleman who's bought the business.
I'd like to see them try to get one of their pets out from under a bona fide charge of mutiny.