bunker
pronunciation
How to pronounce bunker in British English:
UK [ˈbʌŋkə(r)]
How to pronounce bunker in American English:
US [ˈbʌŋkɚ]
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- Noun:
- a hazard on a golf course
- a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground
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- Verb:
- hit a golf ball into a bunker
- fill (a ship's bunker) with coal or oil
- transfer cargo from a ship to a warehouse
Word Origin
- bunker (n.)
- 1758, originally Scottish, "seat, bench," of uncertain origin, possibly a variant of banker "bench" (1670s; see bank (n.2)); possibly from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Swedish bunke "boards used to protect the cargo of a ship"). Of golf courses, first recorded 1824, from extended sense "earthen seat" (1805); meaning "dug-out fortification" probably is from World War I.
Example
- 1. The two halls were the heart of the bunker .
- 2. What if muammar qaddafi sits out the raids in his bunker ?
- 3. She plays frankie , a school lust-object who takes part in an exclusive mini-party in a disused bunker .
- 4. He discovered these giant grids etched into the chinese desert in 2011 , and a suspected underground missile bunker in iran in 2008 .
- 5. They then all went and took the third bunker with little trouble .