Definitions for tunnel

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tunnel tun·nel

Spelling: [tuhn-l]

IPA: /ˈtʌn l/

Tunnel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in tunnel (elnntu).

Definitions for tunnel

noun

1. an underground passage.
2. a passageway, as for trains or automobiles, through or under an obstruction, as a city, mountain, river, harbor, or the like.
3. an approximately horizontal gallery or corridor in a mine.
4. the burrow of an animal.
5. Dialect. a funnel.

verb (used with object)

1. to construct a passageway through or under:
2. to make or excavate (a tunnel or underground passage):
3. to move or proceed by or as if by boring a tunnel:
4. to pierce or hollow out, as with tunnels.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a tunnel or tunnels:

Origin of tunnel

1400-50; late Middle English tonel (noun) Middle French tonele, tonnelle funnel-shaped net, feminine of tonnel cask, diminutive of tonne tun; see

Examples for tunnel

The only catch—he never mined a thing and the tunnel led to a scenic ledge.

She walked on and came into the road that leads to the tunnel.

Over the next 36 years, he would dig a 2,087-foot tunnel that led absolutely nowhere.

She knew, of course, really that the tunnel was lit from end to end by electricity.

The dirt from the tunnel is washed for the joint account of the two companies.

For years, William Schmidt single-handedly dug a tunnel through a mountain to transport his gold-rush loot.

After the tunnel was complete, Schmidt went about building a rail line through it.

When the project was completed, Schmidt moved from the tunnel into town.

Most of the mining is done in hydraulic and tunnel claims in deep hills.

She turned mechanically towards the tunnel, drawn by the darkness.