tunnel

English

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Wikipedia

a tunnel [1-2] in Wuppertal

Etymology

From Middle French tonnelle.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtʌn(ə)l/
• Rhymes: -ʌnəl

Noun

tunnel (plural tunnels)

1. An underground or underwater passage.
2. A passage through or under some obstacle.
   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the burrows the real rabbits lived in.

3. A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.

Translations

an underground or underwater passage

• Arabic: نفق (ar) (náfaq) m
• Armenian: թունել (hy) (t’unel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 隧道 (cmn) (suìdào), 地下道 (cmn) (dìxiàdào), 坑道 (cmn) (kēngdào)

• Czech: tunel (cs) m
• Dutch: tunnel (nl) m
• Esperanto: tunelo (eo)
• Estonian: tunnel (et)
• Finnish: tunneli (fi)
• French: tunnel (fr) m
• Galician: túnel (gl) m
• Georgian: გვირაბი (ka) (gvirabi)
• German: Tunnel (de) m
• Greek: σήραγγα (el) (síranɡa) f
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• Hungarian: alagút (hu)
• Icelandic: göng (is) n pl, undirgöng (is) n pl
• Ido: tunelo

• Japanese: トンネル (ja) (tonneru), 地下道 (ja) (ちかどう, chikadō), 隧道 (ja) (すいどう, suidō), 坑道 (ja) (こうどう, kōdō)
• Korean: 터널 (ko) (toe-noel)
• Malay: terowong (ms), terowongan (ms), tembusan (ms)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: tunell (no) m, tunnel (no) m
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: تونل (fa) (tunel)
• Polish: tunel (pl) m
• Romanian: tunel (ro) n
• Russian: тоннель (ru) (tonnɛ́lʹ) m, туннель (ru) (tunnɛ́lʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: tunail (gd) f
• Sindhi: سِرِنگھَه (sd) f
• Spanish: túnel (es) m
• Swedish: tunnel (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: đường hầm (vi)
• Welsh: twnnel m

Verb

tunnel (third-person singular simple present tunnels, present participle tunnelling or in American usage tunneling, simple past and past participle tunnelled or in American usage tunneled)

1. (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something, to burrow.
2. (intransitive) To make a tunnel.

Related terms

• light at the end of the tunnel
• tunneller
• tunnel vision
• wind tunnel

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Noun

tunnel m (plural tunnels, diminutive tunneltje)

1. tunnel

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French

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ty.nɛl/, X-SAMPA: /ty.nEl/

Noun

tunnel m (plural tunnels)

1. tunnel

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Italian

Etymology

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈt̪un.nel], /ˈtunnel/, X-SAMPA: /"tun.nel/
• Hyphenation: tùn‧nel

Noun

tunnel m (invariable)

1. tunnel

Synonyms

• galleria

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Swedish

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Noun

tunnel c

1. tunnel;
   1. An underground or underwater passage.
   2. A passage through or under some obstacle.
   3. A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.

Declension

Declension of tunnel

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tunnel	tunneln	tunnlar	tunnlarna
genitive	tunnels	tunnelns	tunnlars	tunnlarnas

Related terms

• biltunnel
• järnvägstunnel
• tunneleffekt
• tunnelseende
• tunnla
• tunnling