bunch
UK/bʌntʃ//bʌnt͡ʃ/
bunch noun: a group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
Noun
bunch (plural bunches)
- A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
- a bunch of grapes
- a bunch of bananas
- The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
- An informal body of friends.
- He still hangs out with the same bunch.
- “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,[…], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
- A considerable amount.
- a bunch of trouble
- An unmentioned amount; a number.
- A bunch of them went down to the field.
- A group of logs tied together for skidding.
- An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
- The ore may be disseminated throughout the matrix in minute particles, as gold in quartz; in parallel threads, strings, and plates, as with copper; in irregular pockets or bunches1874, David Page, Economic Geology: Or, Geology in Its Relations to the Arts and Manufactures
- The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
- An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
- Two to four filler leaves are laid end to end and rolled into the two halves of the binder leaves, making up what is called the bunch.
- A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
- They will carry[…]their treasures upon the bunches of camels.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 30:6
- A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass, 60 of which constitute a way or web.
Verb
bunch (third-person singular simple present bunches, present participle bunching, simple past and past participle bunched)
- To gather into a bunch.
- To gather fabric into folds.
- To form a bunch.
- "Permissive" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such working is often authorised to allow freight trains to "bunch" together to await a path through a bottleneck instead of...1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The collisions at Connington”, in Modern Railways, page 232
- To be gathered together in folds
- To protrude or swell
- A very large ſparry Nodule externally of a brown Colour. It has ſomewhat of the reſemblance of a large Champignon before 'tis open'd, bunching out into a large round Knob at one end, the part proceeding from it being leſs, round, and not unlike a Stalk.1729, J[ohn] Woodward, “Classis V. Corpora Coralloidea, & hisce affinia.”, in An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England; […], tome I, London: […] F[rancis] Fayram, […]; J[ohn]...
Proper noun capitalized: Bunch
Bunch (countable and uncountable, plural Bunches)
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States, named after Cherokee Rabbit Bunch.
bunch meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
bunch in Hindi
- bunch, bundle
- गुच्छ gucch
- a bunch, cluster
- गुच्छा gucchā
- bunch, cluster
- गहल gahal
bunch in Tamil
- கொத்து
bunch in Marathi
- bunch, cluster
- झुमका jhumkā
bunch in Urdu
- گانٹھ, گروہ, گچھا, خوشہ, پنڈا, گچھا بنانا
More languagesFewer languages
- bunch in Telugu
- దుబ్బు dubbu
- bunch in Malayalam
- കുല kula, പടല paṭala
- bunch in Kannada
- ಗುಡಿ guḍi
- bunch in Punjabi
- ਗੁੱਛਾ gucchā
- bunch in Odia
- କାଣ୍ଡ kāṇḍa, ବିସ୍ତାର bistāra
- bunch in Sanskrit
- पुलक pulaka
- bunch in Sinhala
- පොකුර pokura
- bunch in Arabic
- حُزْمَة ḥuzma, عُنْقُود ʕunqūd, مَجْمُوعَة majmūʕa, حَزَمَ ḥazama
- bunch in Thai
- กลุ่ม glùm, ช่อ chɔ̂ɔ, พวง puuang, หวี wǐi
- bunch in Vietnamese
- bó, chùm, buồng, đống
Examples of bunch in a sentence
- a bunch of yobs on a street corner
- It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- What is the explanation of bunching? […] Meanwhile there are other buses following on the same route.1949 July and August, Railway Magazine, page vii, advertisement by London Transport:
Synonyms of bunch
3 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- nest of ore
- ore bunch
- bunch of ore
Forms of bunch
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bunches |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | bunches |
| present participle | bunching |
| past participle | bunched |
| past | bunched |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Bunches |
Origin of bunch
From Middle English bunche, bonche (“hump, swelling”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of *bunge (compare dialectal bung (“heap, grape bunch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkō, *bunkô, *bungǭ (“heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ-, *bʰénǵʰus (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian Bunke (“bone”), West Frisian bonke (“bone, lump, bump”), Dutch bonk (“lump, bone”), Low German Bunk (“bone”), German Bunge (“tuber”), Danish bunke (“heap, pile”), Faroese bunki (“heap, pile”); Hittite 𒉺𒀭𒆪𒍑 (/pankuš/, “total, entire”), Tocharian B pkante (“volume, fatness”), Lithuanian búožė (“knob”), Ancient Greek παχύς (pakhús, “thick”), Sanskrit बहु (bahú, “thick; much”)). Alternatively, perhaps from a variant or diminutive of bump (compare hump/hunch, lump/lunch, etc.); or from dialectal Old French bonge (“bundle”) (compare French bongeau, bonjeau, bonjot), from West Flemish bondje, diminutive of West Flemish bond (“bundle”).
Words formed from bunch
- best of the bunch
- bluebunch
- buncha
- bunchberry
- bunchflower
- bunchgrass
- bunch grass
- bunchlet
- bunch of fives
- bunch pink
- bunchy
- get one's panties in a bunch
- honeybunch
- kissing-bunch
- microbunch
- nanobunch
- one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
- thanks a bunch
- Willow Bunch
- buncher
- bunch in
- bunch together
- bunch up
- unbunch
Phrases with bunch
Words that rhyme with bunch
Questions about bunch
- What does bunch mean?
- Bunch means a group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
- What is bunch in Hindi?
- Bunch in Hindi is गुच्छ (gucch), गुच्छा (gucchā), गहल (gahal). See Bunch meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use bunch in a sentence?
- a bunch of yobs on a street corner
- What part of speech is bunch?
- Bunch can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bunch?
- Bunch is pronounced /bʌntʃ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bunch?
- The plural of bunch is bunches.
Words near bunch in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bunch (page history and authors); Bunch (page history and authors); गहल (Hindi) (page history and authors); bunch (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); झुमका (Marathi) (page history and authors); bunch (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); దుబ్బు (Telugu) (page history and authors); കുല (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಗುಡಿ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਗੁੱਛਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); କାଣ୍ଡ (Odia) (page history and authors); पुलक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); පොකුර (Sinhala) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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