fond

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Having a strong liking, inclination, or affection: fond of ballet; fond of my nieces and nephews.
2. adj. Affectionate; tender: a fond embrace.
3. adj. Immoderately affectionate or indulgent; doting: fond grandparents who tended to spoil the child.
4. adj. Cherished; dear: my fondest hopes.
5. adj. Archaic Naively credulous or foolish.
6. n. The background of a design in lace.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. An obsolete preterit of find.
2. A Middle English form of fand.
3. Foolish; simple; silly.
4. Exhibiting or expressing foolishness or folly.
5. Foolishly tender and loving; doting; weakly indulgent; also (without implication of weakness or foolishness), tender; loving; very affectionate.
6. Foolishly or extravagantly prized; hence, trifling; trivial.
7. Disposed to prize highly or to like very much; feeling affection or pleasure: usually followed by of, rarely by an infinitive: as, to be fond of children; to be fond of oysters.
8. Cloyingly sweet in taste or smell; fulsome; luscious.
9. To be fond; be in love; dote.
10. To treat with great indulgence or tenderness; caress; fondle.
11. n. Bottom.
12. n. Fund; stock.
13. n. (F. pron. fôṅ). A background or groundwork, especially of lace.
14. n. A gravy from braized and spiced meats which serves as the foundation for sauces.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Having a liking or affection (for).
2. adj. Affectionate.
3. adj. Indulgent.
4. adj. Outlandish; foolish; silly.
5. n. The background design in lace-making.
6. v. obsolete To have a foolish affection for, to be fond of.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. imp. of find. Found.
2. adj. Archaic Foolish; silly; simple; weak.
3. adj. Foolishly tender and loving; weakly indulgent; over-affectionate.
4. adj. Affectionate; loving; tender; -- in a good sense.
5. adj. Loving; much pleased; affectionately regardful, indulgent, or desirous; longing or yearning; -- followed by of (formerly also by on).
6. adj. rare Doted on; regarded with affection.
7. adj. obsolete Trifling; valued by folly; trivial.
8. v. obsolete To caress; to fondle.
9. v. obsolete To be fond; to dote.
10. n. Foundation; bottom; groundwork.
11. n. (Lace Making) The ground.
12. n. (Cookery) The broth or juice from braised flesh or fish, usually served as a sauce.
13. n. Fund, stock, or store.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. having or displaying warmth or affection
2. adj. absurd or silly because unlikely
3. adj. extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent
4. adj. (followed by `of' or `to') having a strong preference or liking for