Translation
bunker, concrete shelter
Word origin
From the military sense of English and German bunker. The older Scots bunker was a chest or a bench with storage under the seat, which became the ship's coal store and then the fortified shelter.
- Origin
- English and German
- Root
- bunker
- English cognates
- bunker
Examples
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The soldiers hid in the bunker during the battle.
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An old bunker from the war remains under the field.
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The walls of the bunker are thick and cold.
One root, -, taken in whole for the military meaning only. Esperanto does not use it for the sand trap on a golf course or for a ship's coal store, which are the other two English senses.
It is museum vocabulary now, and honestly so. Concrete bunkroj from the two world wars still sit under fields across northern Europe, and the word turns up more often in memoirs and guidebooks than in anything anyone says out loud. Nearby: o for a shelter in general, for a fortification.
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