bunch
English
/ˈbʌntʃ/
noun
Definitions
- A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
- (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
- An informal body of friends.
- (US) A considerable amount.
- (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
- (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
- (geology) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
- (textiles) 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.
- A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bunche inherited from Proto-Germanic *bunkō derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (thick, dense, fat) derived from Old French bonge (bundle) derived from West Flemish bondje, bond (bundle) root from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (thick, dense, fat).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰenǵʰ-
Gloss
thick, dense, fat
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
厚
Emoji
🐻
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- berry English
- blue English
- bluebunch English
- bunchberry English
- buncher English
- bunchflower English
- bunchgrass English
- bunchily English
- bunchiness English
- bunchlet English
- bunchy English
- flower English
- grass English
- honey English
- honeybunch English
- microbunch English
- nanobunch English
- pachy- English
- unbunch English
- bonk Dutch, Flemish
- zeebonk Dutch, Flemish
- παχύδερμος Ancient Greek
- παχύς Ancient Greek
- *bʰenǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰn̥ǵʰús Proto-Indo-European
- *bungô Proto-Germanic
- *bunkō Proto-Germanic
- बहु Sanskrit
- बहुक Sanskrit
- बहुता Sanskrit
- बहुत्व Sanskrit
- बहुधान्य Sanskrit
- বহুত্ৱ, बहुत्व Sanskrit
- bunche Middle English
- bunchy Middle English
- bunki Old Norse
- bonge Old French
- बहु- Hindi
- bausastra Indonesian
- bonc Middle Dutch
- బహు Telugu
- bunki Faroese
- bunk Middle Low German
- bahu Pali
- બહુ Gujarati
- *bʰaȷ́ʰu-lás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *baźʰúṣ Proto-Indo-Aryan
- bonke Western Frisian
- rêchbonke Western Frisian
- بہت Urdu
- bunka Old Frisian
- Bunke Saterland Frisian
- Bunk Low German
- ꦧꦲꦸꦱꦱ꧀ꦠꦿ Javanese
- bond West Flemish
- bondje West Flemish
- bo Kalasha