punchbowl
/ˈpʌnt͡ʃˌboʊl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A locality in the Clarence Valley council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
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A valley in Belfield, Canterbury-Bankstown, South West Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in Canterbury-Bankstown, South West Sydney.
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A neighbourhood of Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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A valley in Yanggu, Gangwon Province, South Korea.
Example Sentences
- "Last week, on the front north of the Punchbowl, a whole battalion of marines—nearly 1,000 men—was moved to a mountainous front-line sector by helicopter, in the largest operation of its kind to date."
- "Hill 930 here, about 100 miles northeast of Seoul, just above the village of Wontong, towers over a region still called the Punchbowl because that is what it looked like to G.I.'s during the Korean War.[…] "The Korean War is to all accounts and purposes ignored," said Rudy Basurto of Lompoc, Calif., who was a medic with the 45th Division 33 years ago in the Punchbowl."
- "Naimo ran to their aid, exposing himself to withering enemy mortar, artillery and machine gun fire sweeping his company’s position: Hill 1052, near what would be called “The Punchbowl,” north of the 38th Parallel."
- "Our drive north brings us to Haean-myeon valley, a highland basin in the far northeast of South Korea, and which was nicknamed “the punchbowl” by American-led United Nations forces during the Korean war. Jung, KFS biologist Bak Gippeum and I stroll through the 375-acre National DMZ Botanical Garden, which opened four years ago."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpʌnt͡ʃˌboʊl/