bunch

1. 1.

   form into a bunch

   “The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom”

   Synonymsbunch togetherbunch up

   Broadercluster
2. 2.

   gather or cause to gather into a cluster

   “She bunched her fingers into a fist”

   Synonymsbundleclusterclump

   Broaderform

   Narroweragglomerate

Other forms of bunch

plural

bunches·

past tense

bunched·

present participle

bunching·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bunch

What does bunch mean?

bunch means "a grouping of a number of similar things". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bunch?

bunch has 1 syllable: bunch. In IPA it is /ˈbʌntʃ/.

What is another word for bunch?

Close synonyms include clump, cluster, clustering, crowd, crew. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bunch a common word?

bunch is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bunch?

1 word rhymes with bunch. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.