trunk
/tɹʌŋk/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A container.
noun
A container.
noun
A container.
Example Sentences
- "There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors."
- "To lie, like pawns, lock'd up in chests and trunks"
- "I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk."
- "He shot Sugar Plums at them out of a Trunk."
- "the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches"
- "Large streames of bloud out of the truncked stocke / Forth gushed, like fresh water streame from riuen rocke."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /tɹʌŋk/
- British English: /tɹʌŋk/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.