bundle

Syllables: bun·dle/ˈbʌn.dl̩/

bundle noun: a group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.

Noun

bundle (plural bundles)

(collective, countable) A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
- a bundle of straw or of paper
- a bundle of noodles
Synonyms:

sheaf, wisp
(countable) A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
(collective) A group of products or services sold together as a unit.
- This software bundle includes a wordprocessor, a spreadsheet, and two games.
(informal) A large amount, especially of money.
- The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle.
- I mean it's nothing for him to go to the races, do a bundle, and come home laughing and joking like nothing's happened.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 134
Synonyms:

mint, pile, small fortune
A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.
(Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
(countable) A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.

Verb

bundle (third-person singular simple present bundles, present participle bundling, simple past and past participle bundled)

(transitive) To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
(transitive) To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
- They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney
(intransitive) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
(transitive) To dress someone warmly.
(intransitive) To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
To sell hardware and software as a single product.
(intransitive) To hurry.
(slang) Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.

Synonyms:

dogpile
(transitive) To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
- At the other end, Essien thought he had bundled the ball over the line in between Bolton's final two substitutions but the flag had already gone up.2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC
- Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 7”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
(dated, intransitive) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
- Van Corlear […][stopped] occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New...
- They were on the couch for nearly an hour, then in the shower for she didn't know how long — until the hot water started to fail and drove them out, anyway. Then she took him into her bed, where she lay too exhausted and too content to do anything but bundle.1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

bundle meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

bundle in Hindi

group of objects held together by wrapping or tying: गठरी gaṭhrī, गड्डी gaḍḍī

bundle in Marathi

a bundle: गड्डी gaḍḍī
bundle: गाठोडे gāṭhoḍe, बोचके bocke

bundle in Urdu

bundle, package, parcel: گٹھری gaṭhrī
bundle, pack: بوجھ bojh
bundle, wad: گدی gaddī

More languagesFewer languages

bundle in Bengali: কিতা kita
bundle in Telugu: కట్ట kaṭṭa, మోపు mōpu, దిండు diṇḍu
bundle in Malayalam: കെട്ട് keṭṭŭ
bundle in Kannada: ಸೂಡಿ, ಕಂತೆ, ಗಟ್ಟೆ, ಮೂಟೆ
bundle in Sanskrit: बन्ध bandha
bundle in Assamese: মুঠা mutha
bundle in Nepali: बन्डल, बंडल, बण्डल
bundle in Tagalog: bungkos, tungkos
bundle in Arabic: إِبَالَة ʔibāla, حُزْمَة ḥuzma
bundle in Malay: berkas
bundle in Indonesian: bundel
bundle in Persian: دسته daste, بقچه baqče
bundle in Thai: มัด mát, กำ gam, ฟ่อน fɔ̂ɔn
bundle in Vietnamese: chùm, bó
bundle in Myanmar: အထုပ် a.htup

Examples of bundle in a sentence

a bundle of old clothes
The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend.1760, Oliver Goldsmith, On National Concord:
Why, I didn't know that she meant that, until the Captain gave me an explanation, because I was dull of comprehension ; for he bundled me out of the house.1859, Terence, Comedies of Terence:

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Synonyms of bundle

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Forms of bundle

Noun
plural	bundles
Verb
third-person singular present	bundles
present participle	bundling
past participle	bundled
past	bundled

Past tense of bundle: bundled

Plural of bundle: bundles

Origin of bundle

From Middle English bundel, from Middle Dutch bondel or Old English byndele, byndelle (“a binding; tying; fastening with bands”); both from Proto-Germanic *bundil-, derivative of *bundą (“bundle”). Compare also bindle, Dutch bundel, German Bündel.

Words formed from bundle

Phrases with bundle

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Questions about bundle

What does bundle mean?: Bundle means a group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
What is bundle in Hindi?: Bundle in Hindi is गठरी (gaṭhrī), गड्डी (gaḍḍī). See Bundle meaning in Hindi.
How do you use bundle in a sentence?: a bundle of old clothes
What part of speech is bundle?: Bundle can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce bundle?: Bundle is pronounced /ˈbʌn.dl̩/.
What is the plural of bundle?: The plural of bundle is bundles.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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