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bandom1
- uncountableThe condition or quality of being a band.
Forming out of a mutual love of the music the band were less of a gang of mates drifting into bandom than people fired by their interest in the music.
1998, John Robb, The Charlatans: We Are Rock, Ebury Press, →ISBN2 more examples
The confines of traditional bandom, so long seen as the only way to do it, are falling away, allowing committed lifelong musicians the freedom to actually have some semblance of a life.
2009 March, Colin Kincaid, “Off the Treadmill: Bouncing Souls”, in Reax, number 34, page 26Hundred Reasons have had a tumultuous career, having been dropped by three different record labels in five years, twice during crucial stages of bandom, shortly following the release of their second album and again following their third.
2009 November 23, Iain Smith, “One is enough”, in Qmunicate, number 72, page 14
bandom2
- slanguncountablelifestyleThe collective fandoms surrounding certain bands.
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bandom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bandom
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