1
: any of various units of dry capacity see Weights and Measures Table
2
: a container holding a bushel
3
: a large quantity
bushels of money
Synonyms
Noun
- abundance
- barrel
- basketful
- boatload
- bucket
- bunch
- bundle
- carload
- chunk
- deal
- dozen
- fistful
- gobs
- good deal
- heap
- hundred
- lashings [chiefly British]
- lashins
- loads
- lot
- mass
- mess
- mountain
- much
- multiplicity
- myriad
- oodles
- pack
- passel
- peck
- pile
- plateful
- plenitude
- plentitude
- plenty
- pot
- potful
- profusion
- quantity
- raft
- reams
- scads
- sheaf
- shipload
- sight
- slew
- spate
- stack
- store
- ton
- truckload
- volume
- wad
- wealth
- yard
Examples of bushel in a Sentence
Noun
picked up a bushel of decorations at the after-Christmas sale
Recent Examples on the Web
Sal Gilbertie, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
Perhaps, for some Bears players, that heaviness inside the locker room late Sunday had something to do with how familiar this loss felt, with the offense failing to capitalize on another strong outing by the defense and squandering a bushel full of golden opportunities.
—Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2024
Already, 2,000 bushel bags of cones have been collected by Cal Fire foresters.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
Rocio Fabbro walks us through Apple’s bushel of new offerings.
—Peter Green, Quartz, 1 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Corn, for example, has a 17-year trading range of about $3.50 to $7.50 per bushel.
—Sal Gilbertie, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
Perhaps, for some Bears players, that heaviness inside the locker room late Sunday had something to do with how familiar this loss felt, with the offense failing to capitalize on another strong outing by the defense and squandering a bushel full of golden opportunities.
—Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2024
Already, 2,000 bushel bags of cones have been collected by Cal Fire foresters.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
Rocio Fabbro walks us through Apple’s bushel of new offerings.
—Peter Green, Quartz, 1 Sep. 2024
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“Bushel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bushel. Accessed 1 Oct. 2024.
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