bunker

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌŋkə(r)

Noun

bunker (plural bunkers)

1. (military) A hardened shelter, often buried partly or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.
2. (UK) A large container or bin for storing coal, often built outside in the yard of a house. Now rare, as different types of fuels and energy sources are being used.
3. (nautical) A container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine.
4. (golf) A sand-filled hollow on a golf course.
5. (paintball) An obstacle used to block an opposing player's view and field of fire.
6. (Scotland) A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

Translations

hardened shelter

• Bulgarian: бункер (bg) m (búnker)
• Catalan: búnquer (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 掩體, 掩体 (zh) (yǎntǐ), 地堡 (zh) (dìbǎo)

• Czech: bunkr m
• Dutch: bunker (nl) m
• Finnish: bunkkeri (fi)
• German: Bunker (de) m
• Greek: οχυρό (el) n (ochyró), καταφύγιο (el) n (katafýgio)
• Hungarian: bunker (hu)

• Italian: bunker (it) m
• Japanese: バンカー (ja) (bankā), トーチカ (tōchika)
• Korean: 엄폐호 (ko) (eompyeho), 벙커 (beongkeo), 토치카 (tochika)
• Portuguese: casamata (pt)
• Russian: бункер (ru) m (búnker)
• Serbo-Croatian: bùnker m
• Spanish: búnker (es) m
• Ukrainian: бункер (uk) m (búnker)

large container for storing coal

• Bulgarian: бункер (bg) m (búnker)
• Catalan: carbonera f

• Greek: καυσιμαποθήκη f (kafsimapothíki)
• Italian: bunker (it) m

container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine

• Greek: καυσιμαποθήκη f (kafsimapothíki)

• Serbo-Croatian: bùnker m

sand-filled hollow

• Bulgarian: пясъчник m (pjasǎčnik)
• Finnish: hiekkaeste
• German: Bunker (de) m

• Italian: bunker (it) m
• Korean: 벙커 (beongkeo)

paintball term

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Translations to be checked

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} búnker m

Derived terms

• bunker fuel

Verb

bunker (third-person singular simple present bunkers, present participle bunkering, simple past and past participle bunkered)

1. (nautical) To load a vessel with oil or coal for the engine.
2. (golf) To hit a golfball into a bunker.
3. (paintball) To fire constantly at a hiding opponent, preventing them from firing at other players and trapping them behind the barrier. This can also refer to eliminating an opponent behind cover by rushing the position and firing at extremely close range as the player becomes exposed.

Translations

To load a vessel with oil or coal for the engine

• Bulgarian: товаря въглища

To hit a golfball into a bunker

• Bulgarian: попадам в пясъчника

Derived terms

• bunker down

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French

Etymology

From German Bunker

Noun

bunker m (plural bunkers)

1. (golf) bunker
2. (military) bunker

External links

• "bunker" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǔnker/
• Hyphenation: bun‧ker

Noun

bùnker m (Cyrillic spelling бу̀нкер)

1. bunker (hardened shelter)
2. bunker (container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine)

Declension

    declension of bunker

	singular	plural
nominative	bunker	bunkeri
genitive	bunkera	bunkera
dative	bunkeru	bunkerima
accusative	bunker	bunkere
vocative	bunkeru	bunkeri
locative	bunkeru	bunkerima
instrumental	bunkerom	bunkerima