bank

1 a number of things considered as a unit a bank of telephones set up for the telethon Synonyms array, assemblage, band, bank, batch, battery, block, bunch, clot, clump, cluster, clutch, collection, constellation, grouping, huddle, knot, lot, muster, package, parcel, passel, set, suiteRelated Words accumulation, aggregate, aggregation, conglomeration; agglomeration, assortment, hodgepodge, jumble, miscellany, mixture, odds and ends, sundries, variety; cycle, run, series, suitNear Antonyms entity, item, single, unit

2 a series of people or things arranged side by side a bank of elevators Synonyms bank, rankRelated Words chain, column, cue, file, line, procession, queue, range, string, train; echelon, tier; array, concatenation, sequence

a pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow) a bank of dirt that the construction workers left behind Synonyms bar, drift, mound Related Words snowbank, snowdrift; embankment, sandbar; heap, hill, mass, mountain, stack, tuft

1 to form into a pile or ridge of earth banked sand into little mounds on the beach Synonyms mound, hillRelated Words heap, pile, pyramid, stack; embank; bunch, bundle, clump, lump, mass, wad; accumulate, amass, assemble, collect, conglomerate, gather, group

2 to put in an account she always banks half of her paycheck Synonyms depositRelated Words cache, hoard, lay away, reserve, salt away, save, squirrel (away), stash, store, stow; investNear Antonyms remove, take out; disburse, expend, give, lay out, pay, spendAntonyms withdraw