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
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Quartz Bot, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
By comparison, last year was lean, yielding only 210 bushels.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
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
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Noun
This decrease is due to a reduction in the price per bushel of corn purchased.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
By comparison, last year was lean, yielding only 210 bushels.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2024
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
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“Bushel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bushel. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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