Bundle Meaning
/ˈbʌn.dl̩/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
nounA package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
Sentence Examples
It's a bundle of contradictions.
That kid is a little bundle of energy.
She tied the newspapers in a bundle.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The hiker carried a ____ of firewood back to the campsite.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She carried a large ____ of dry sticks to start a fire in the room.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English bundel, from Middle Dutch bondel or Old English byndele, byndelle (“a binding; tying; fastening with bands”); both from Proto-Germanic *bundil-, derivative of *bundą (“bundle”). Compare also bindle, Dutch bundel, German Bündel.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend."
— 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, On National Concord:
"I mean it's nothing for him to go to the races, do a bundle, and come home laughing and joking like nothing's happened."
— 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 134:
"They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach."
— 1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney:
"At the other end, Essien thought he had bundled the ball over the line in between Bolton's final two substitutions but the flag had already gone up."
— 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
"Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity."
— 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 7”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The hiker carried a ____ of firewood back to the campsite.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She carried a large ____ of dry sticks to start a fire in the room.