bunker

CEFRB2

/ˈbʌŋ.kə/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A protected underground shelter or storage room.

  2. 02

    noun

    A sand-filled area on a golf course.

Examples

  • Ziri forced the soldier to go inside the bunker.

  • Tom ran back to the bunker.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A compartment for storing coal for the ship's boilers; or a tank for storing fuel oil for the ship's engines.

  2. The coal compartment on a tank engine; it can also refer to that on a tender engine.

  3. A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.

More examples

In context

  • Tom ran inside the bunker.

  • The military built a bunker to help evacuate the citizens safely from the bombings.

  • There used to be a coal bunker at the back of the house - it was demolished years ago.

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

Soldiers took cover inside the concrete blank during the heavy artillery attack.

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Origin

noun

The origin of the noun is uncertain; the earliest sense is sense 7.1 (“box or chest, the lid of which serves as a seat”), from Scots bunker (“bench; pew; window-seat; sand pit (especially in golf); coal receptacle; sleeping berth, bunk”), from Early Scots bunker, bunkur, bonker (“a chest or box, often serving as a seat”), probably from Old Norse bunki (“a heap”) (probably whence bunk (“sleeping berth in a ship, train, etc.”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkô (“a heap, pile; a bump, lump, a crowd”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick”) or *bʰeg- (“to billow, swell; to arch, bend, curve (?)”). Compare Middle Low German bunge (“drum, container”), Middle High German bunge (“drum”). Se...