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bunch

//bʌntʃ//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for bunch

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Forms

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural: bunches

Verb
A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1): bunch
past (v2): bunched
past participle (v3): bunched
present participle: bunching
3rd person singular: bunches

Definitions

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1.A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
2.The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
3.An informal body of friends.
- He still hangs out with the same bunch.
4.A considerable amount.(informal)

Verb
A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1.To gather fabric into folds.
2.To be gathered together in folds
3.To gather into a bunch.
4.To form a bunch.

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #2018

By learning goal

Everyday conversation: Uncommon
General reading & writing: Uncommon
Academic: Rare
Literature: Rare

Related words

Synonyms

cluster

Etymology

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 [Term?] (/⁠panku⁠/, “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”).

Data sources:

Wiktionary (Wiktextract) (CC BY-SA)
Princeton WordNet (WordNet License)
Tatoeba (CC BY)
COCA / wordfrequency.info (derived frequency bands only)

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