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bona fide
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bona fide
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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bona fide

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] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bona fide

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.

Wiktionary
bona fide

a. 1 In good faith. 2 genuine; not counterfeit.

WordNet
bona fide
  1. adj. undertaken in good faith; "a bona fide offer"

  2. 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]

Wikipedia
Bona Fide (Wishbone Ash album)

Bona Fide is the 18th studio album from rock band Wishbone Ash. It is the first studio album in six years (since 1996's Illuminations) and is the only studio album to feature guitarist Ben Granfelt. The band began a two-year, worldwide tour in support of the album in 2002.

Bona fide (disambiguation)

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
  • Bonafide (coffee), an Argentinian coffee brand, which also run its own chain of coffee stores.

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.