bulk

Part of speech: noun

Magnitude; mass; size; a large body; the greater part.

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Usage examples "bulk":

  1. He turned, and standing in the doorway, quite filling it with his bulk, he answered: " My father died three years ago. - "From One Generation to Another", Henry Seton Merriman.
  2. At the same time, I am quite sure that in one important and splendid particular he is saner than is the vast bulk of the race. - "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories", Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Last Updated: February 18, 2009.
  3. Then the dark bulk of a building loomed up ahead and Pete pushed open a door. - "Partners of the Out-Trail", Harold Bindloss.