bunch
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
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to gather into a cluster; gather together.
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(of fabric or clothing) to gather into folds (often followed byup ).
noun
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a number of things growing, fastened, or grouped together
a bunch of grapes
a bunch of keys
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a collection; group
a bunch of queries
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informal a group or company
a bunch of boys
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archaic a protuberance
verb
Usage
What is a basic definition of bunch? A bunch is a group of things. Bunch can also specifically mean a group that is connected together. Used informally, a bunch is a group of people. As a verb, bunch means to gather into a group.A bunch is a collection or group of items gathered into one place. If you have a bunch of papers on your desk, for example, you have many papers on your desk.
- Used in a sentence: Angela was happy to see that there were a bunch of presents under the Christmas tree.
- Real-life examples: You might eat from a bunch of grapes and be left with just the stem. A maintenance person usually carries a bunch of keys on a ring.
- Used in a sentence: I bought a small bunch of bananas.
- Used in a sentence: A bunch of kids ran past us to watch the clown perform magic tricks.
- Used in a sentence: I bunched all of the wrapping paper into a ball and threw it in the trash.
Related Words
See bundle.
Other Word Forms
- unbunched adjective
Etymology
Origin of bunch
1275–1325; Middle English bunche; of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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“He stuck with his strategy of going to these, for the most part, smaller markets that were not in the middle of a bunch of competitors, and stayed there.”
The myth that there’s a bunch of dry powder poised to surge into the market is the one most likely to cost you.
The book, Fischer’s third about film history, starts before the trio were “big mythical names” and instead were just a bunch of guys setting out to fulfill their dreams.
From Los Angeles Times
Each week, during the British winter, it supplies two million bunches of spring onions, 100 tonnes of green beans and 80 tonnes of radishes.
From BBC
“Nobody put it out on the Internet? Not that the plane vanished, even, but just that there was this mysterious bunch of babies….Didn’t we make CNN?”
From Literature
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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