noun
bounty
BOWN-tee
noun
1
A reward offered, often by an authority, for capturing a person or completing a specific task.
"There was a large bounty on the escaped fugitive."
"The company offers a bounty to anyone who finds a security flaw."
2
Generosity, or the plentiful things that generosity provides.
"The table was piled with the bounty of the autumn harvest."
How to Use Bounty
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA reward for catching someone or completing a task, or generous abundance.
Common pairings
bounty hunter
a bounty on someone's head
bug bounty
Word Forms
bountied past tense, bounties plural, bounties singular
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Etymology
From Old French bonté, "goodness," from Latin bonitas — the reward sense developed later in English.