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Another word for bulk

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Noun

  1. Size

    See also:

    size

    quantity

  2. Major portion

    Antonyms:

Synonym Study

  • Bulk , mass , and volume all refer to a quantity of matter or collection of units forming a body or whole, bulk implying a body of great size, weight, or numbers the lumbering bulk of a hippopotamus, the bulk of humanity, mass, an aggregate, multitude, or expanse forming a cohesive, unified, or solid body an egg-shaped mass, a mass of color, the mass of workers, and volume, a moving or flowing mass, often of a fluctuating nature volumes of smoke, the volume of production
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Another word for bulk

Noun

  1. Great extent, amount, or dimension

    See also:

    big

  2. A measurable whole

    See also:

    big

  3. A separate and distinct portion of matter

    See also:

    matter

  4. Solid and well-developed muscles

    See also:

    body

  5. The main part

    See also:

    big

  6. The greatest part or portion

    See also:

    big

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Sentence Examples

  • The bulk of the land was still farmed.

  • Apart from the schools under the ministry of war (Cossack voiskos and schools at the barracks), the great bulk of the primary schools are either under the ministry of public instruction or of the Holy Synod.

  • We may reckon these measures among the earliest advantages extended to the cities, which still contained the bulk of the old Roman population, and which were destined to intervene with decisive effect two centuries later in Italian history.

  • The regular military was in no position to help, not when the bulk of it was overseas.

  • He traces the original home of the bulk of existing alpine plants to northern Asia.

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