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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-250/
- Published: 2020-10-02T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-01T23:14:38.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

The word for today is…

beholden (adj) – Owing something, such as gratitude, to another; indebted.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/beholden?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Have you ever found yourself under obligation to someone else for a gift or favour? It’s a common experience and, not surprisingly, many of the words describing this condition have been part of the English language for centuries. Beholden is recorded in the Middle-English Arthurian poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Indebted, which entered English through Anglo-French, is older and still very much in use. Those who don’t mind sounding like English speakers of yore have another synonym of beholden to choose from: a now-archaic sense of bounden. That word is today more often used with the meaning “made obligatory” or “binding,” as in “our bounden duty.”

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