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Plural of bunker

regular plural

The plural of bunker is bunkers.

Forms of bunker

Singularbunker /ˈbʌŋ.kə/
Pluralbunkers
Countablecountable

Bunkers in a sentence

  • The bunkers of these engines hold enough coal for one round journey of 120½ miles, and water is taken in each direction at Hexham.1941 December, “Notes and News: A Tank Engine's 241-mile Day”, in Railway Magazine, page 569
  • A good all-round golfer, playing out of bunkers is my Achilles heel.From the entry Achilles heel
  • The enemy fire is increasing – can we get some immediate coverage from those bunkers?From the entry coverage
  • Douche boats destroyed two bunkers and accumulated 30 minutes of water time.2005, William B. Fulton, Mobile Riverine Force: America's Mobile Riverine Force Vietnam, Turner Publishing, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry douche boat
  • Other river craft, “dubbed “douche boats,” were equipped with high-pressure water jets that could disintegrate enemy positions, including cement bunkers.2006, Andrew Wiest, Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land: The Vietnam War Revisited, Osprey Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry douche boat

Meaning of bunker

  1. noun A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.
  2. noun A compartment for storing coal for the ship's boilers; or a tank for storing fuel oil for the ship's engines.
  3. noun The coal compartment on a tank engine; it can also refer to that on a tender engine.

Full definition of bunker

Questions about the plural of bunker

What is the plural of bunker?
The plural of bunker is bunkers.
Is bunker countable?
Bunker is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bunker (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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