Bundle (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. several objects or a quantity of material gathered or bound together: a bundle of hay.
  2. an item, group, or quantity wrapped for carrying; package.
  3. a number of things considered together: a bundle of ideas.
  4. a great deal of money: He made a bundle in the market.
  5. an aggregation of strands of specialized conductive and mechanical tissues.
  6. a group of close isoglosses running in approximately the same direction, especially when taken as evidence of an important dialect division.
  7. an aggregation of fibers, as of nerves or muscles.
verb (used with object), bun·dled, bun·dling.
  1. to tie together or wrap in a bundle: Bundle the newspapers for the trash man.
  2. to send away hurriedly or unceremoniously (usually followed by off, out, etc.): They bundled her off to the country.
  3. to offer or supply (related products or services) in a single transaction at one all-inclusive price.
verb (used without object), bun·dled, bun·dling.
  1. to leave hurriedly or unceremoniously (usually followed by off, out, etc.): They indignantly bundled out of the meeting.
  2. (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 Phrases
  1. to dress warmly or snugly: A blizzard was raging but the children were all bundled up.
Idioms
  1. to lose confidence or hope.
noun
  1. a number of things or a quantity of material gathered or loosely bound together
  2. something wrapped or tied for carrying; package
  3. a large sum of money
  4. to be extremely fond of
  5. a collection of strands of specialized tissue such as nerve fibres
  6. botany short for vascular bundle
  7. a measure of yarn or cloth; 60 000 yards of linen yarn; 5 or 10 pounds of cotton hanks
  8. drop one's bundle
    • to panic or give up hope
    • to give birth
verb
  1. to make into a bundle
  2. to go or cause to go, esp roughly or unceremoniously
  3. to push or throw, esp quickly and untidily
  4. to sell (computer hardware and software) as one indivisible package
  5. to give away (a relatively cheap product) when selling an expensive one to attract business
  6. 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
Bundle (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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