The property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part:
— The bulk of the work is finished.

synonym: majority.

Dutch: gros, hoofdmoot, majoriteit, meerderheid, merendeel, overmacht
Polish: gros, lwia część, większość

The property of something that is great in magnitude:
— It is cheaper to buy it in bulk.

synonyms: mass, volume.

Roget 31: greatness etc. adj.; magnitude; size etc. (dimensions) 192; multitude etc. (number) 102; immensity; enormity; infinity etc. 105; might, strength, intensity, fullness; importance etc. 642.    great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world; mass, heap etc. (assemblage) 72; stock etc. (store) 636; peck, bushel, load, cargo; cartload^†, wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance etc. (sufficiency) 639.    principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part; bulk, mass etc. (whole) 50.    ... show more

Roget 50: whole, totality, integrity; totalness etc. adj.^†; entirety, ensemble, collectiveness^†; unity etc. 87; completeness etc. 52; indivisibility, indiscerptibility^†; integration, embodiment; integer.    all, the whole, total, aggregate, one and all, gross amount, sum, sum total, tout ensemble, length and breadth of, Alpha and Omega, be all and end all;" complex, complexus^†; lock stock and barrel.    bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages^†; trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part; essential part etc. (importance) 642; lion's share, Benjamin's mess; the long and the short; nearly, all, almost all.    ... show more

Roget 192: size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume; largeness etc. adj.; greatness etc. (of quantity) 31; expanse etc. (space) 180; amplitude, mass; proportions.    capacity, tonnage, tunnage; cordage; caliber, scantling.    turgidity etc. (expansion) 194; corpulence, obesity; plumpness etc. adj.; embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood.    hugeness etc. adj.; enormity, immensity, monstrosity.    giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; Triton among the minnows" [Coriolanus]. mountain, mound; heap etc. (assemblage) 72.    largest portion etc. 50; full size, life size.    ... show more

Dutch: bulk

The property possessed by a large mass.

Stick out or up.

Cause to bulge or swell outwards.

synonym: bulge.