Punchbowl
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A large bowl used for making or serving punch (the beverage).
- 1 A valley in Belfield, Canterbury-Bankstown, South West Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- 2 A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in Canterbury-Bankstown, South West Sydney.
- 3 A neighbourhood of Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
- 4 Ellipsis of Punchbowl Crater: a volcano in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 5 A valley in Yanggu, Gangwon Province, South Korea.
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From punch + bowl.
From punch bowl. From being a bowl-shaped valley. * (New South Wales): The suburb of Punchbowl is named after the valley of Punch Bowl in neighbouring Belfield. * (Korea): Coined by United Nations forces during the Korean War, when they fought a battle there.
Related phrases
More for "punchbowl"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.