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
Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
Over five billion bushels of U.S. corn are now swallowed up in the making of ethanol, equal to 40 percent of the huge U.S. crop; a portion of the corn allocated to making ethanol could easily be diverted to exports.
—Carlisle Ford Runge, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2022
The first-ever bushel limits for male crabs came in 2022, after worrisome survey results for the species.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2024
Under Rolph, the company, now called Thrive Restaurant Group, bought up a bushel of Applebee’s locations.
—Sharon Hoffmann, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2024
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Noun
In the orchards, apples lay rotting by the bushel on the ground.
—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
Over five billion bushels of U.S. corn are now swallowed up in the making of ethanol, equal to 40 percent of the huge U.S. crop; a portion of the corn allocated to making ethanol could easily be diverted to exports.
—Carlisle Ford Runge, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2022
The first-ever bushel limits for male crabs came in 2022, after worrisome survey results for the species.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2024
Under Rolph, the company, now called Thrive Restaurant Group, bought up a bushel of Applebee’s locations.
—Sharon Hoffmann, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2024
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“Bushel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bushel. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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