bundle
Americannoun
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bundles
plural
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several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together.
a bundle of hay.
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an item, group, or quantity wrapped for carrying; package.
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a number of things considered together.
a bundle of ideas.
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Slang. a great deal of money.
He made a bundle in the market.
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Botany. an aggregation of strands of specialized conductive and mechanical tissues.
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Also called bundle of isoglosses. Dialect Geography. a group of close isoglosses running in approximately the same direction, especially when taken as evidence of an important dialect division.
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Anatomy, Zoology. an aggregation of fibers, as of nerves or muscles.
verb (used with object)
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bundles,
present (3rd person singular)
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bundled,
past participle, past
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bundling
present participle
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to tie together or wrap in a bundle.
Bundle the newspapers for the trash man.
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to send away hurriedly or unceremoniously (usually followed by off, out, etc.).
They bundled her off to the country.
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to offer or supply (related products or services) in a single transaction at one all-inclusive price.
verb (used without object)
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bundles,
present (3rd person singular)
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bundled,
past participle, past
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bundling
present participle
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to leave hurriedly or unceremoniously (usually followed by off, out, etc.).
They indignantly bundled out of the meeting.
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(especially of sweethearts during courtship in early New England) to lie in the same bed while fully clothed, as for privacy and warmth in a house where an entire family shared one room with a fireplace.
verb phrase
idioms
noun
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a number of things or a quantity of material gathered or loosely bound together
a bundle of sticks
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something wrapped or tied for carrying; package
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slang a large sum of money
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slang to be extremely fond of
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biology a collection of strands of specialized tissue such as nerve fibres
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botany short for vascular bundle
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textiles a measure of yarn or cloth; 60 000 yards of linen yarn; 5 or 10 pounds of cotton hanks
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slang to panic or give up hope
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slang to give birth
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verb
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to make into a bundle
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to go or cause to go, esp roughly or unceremoniously
we bundled him out of the house
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to push or throw, esp quickly and untidily
to bundle shirts into a drawer
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(tr) to sell (computer hardware and software) as one indivisible package
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(tr) to give away (a relatively cheap product) when selling an expensive one to attract business
several free CDs are often bundled with music centres
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(intr) to sleep or lie in one's clothes on the same bed as one's betrothed: formerly a custom in New England, Wales, and elsewhere
Synonym Usage
Bundle, bunch refer to a number of things or an amount of something fastened or bound together. Bundle implies a close binding or grouping together, and often refers to a wrapped package: a bundle of laundry, of dry goods. A bunch is a number of things, usually all of the same kind, fastened together: a bunch of roses, of keys.
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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bundlesimple
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bundlessimple
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have bundledperfect
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has bundledperfect
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am bundlingprogressive
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are bundlingprogressive
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is bundlingprogressive
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have been bundlingperfect progressive
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has been bundlingperfect progressive
Past
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bundledsimple
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had bundledperfect
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was bundlingprogressive
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were bundlingprogressive
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had been bundlingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of bundle
1350–1400; Middle English bundel < Middle Dutch bundel, bondel; akin to bind
Explanation
A bundle is a package of things wrapped together. To wrap things together in a compact way is to bundle them. A baby wrapped up in a blanket is a bundle of joy, and if it’s cold outside, bundle up! Bundle comes from the Middle Dutch word for bind, which is what you do when you bundle stuff — you bind it together. It also means to wrap in warm clothes. This is a word for things that are tightly packed together. If you get a package in the mail, it's a bundle. If you have knickknacks all over the place, you'll need to bundle them when you move by putting them in a box.
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Example Sentences
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The ad-free bundle increases $2 to $21.99, 50 cents more than a single premium subscription.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
The company also boosted the price of its ad-free Disney+ and Hulu bundle, but kept the price of the ad-supported version—its most popular bundle—flat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The ad-supported Disney+ and Hulu bundle will remain at $12.99 a month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Iatcenko looked a bundle of nerves in the biggest match of her career, but composed herself to get on the scoreboard for 5-1 and immediately broke out into a relieved smile.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
She got closer, and the bundle of books under one arm and her flour sack under the other became clearer.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Currently, autumn clothing bundles are in demand, but volunteers have already started putting together a Christmas box of festive clothing, blankets, and shoes.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
And how expensive the new Skydance streaming bundles are going to be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Buying a home also bundles two very important, but very different, decisions: where to live, and how to invest a large chunk of your life savings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Shoes, water bottles and small bundles of belongings lay beside them, highlighting the lack of permanent accommodation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
One tray is filled with bundles of slender gray-brown sticks.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
At the dawn of the internet, a select group of companies made a killing creating the equipment and business model for the system of glass strands bundled in cables, known as a fiber-optic network.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
The two provisions bundled together differ enormously in scope.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
In other words, the bundled vaccines are better for children’s health.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
After waiting a while, the local reporters burst into a sudden excitement when they were sent video of Ahmadzai being bundled into a car at police HQ.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
I said to the bicyclist, who had a baby bundled up in the front bike carrier.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
Huawei’s bundling strategy also means it needs several times as many chips to match the computing power of Nvidia’s systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The company has also explored bundling other subscription-based streaming services, including NBCUniversal’s Peacock, into its offering, report Jessica Toonkel and Ben Fritz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Its German market has struggled since legislation in the country prevented housing associations from bundling TV contracts with rent.
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
“Until that dynamic shifts,” he wrote, “a return to bundling — which may ultimately be necessary to reignite growth in total consumer video spend — seems unlikely in the near term.”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 30, 2026
Mrs. Diamant started bundling me into the coat.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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