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Definitions for Tunnel

[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.
[6] to construct a passageway through or under: to tunnel a mountain.
[7] to make or excavate (a tunnel or underground passage): to tunnel a passage under a river.
[8] to move or proceed by or as if by boring a tunnel: The river tunneled its way through the mountain.
[9] to pierce or hollow out, as with tunnels.
[10] to make a tunnel or tunnels: to tunnel through the Alps.
[11] an underground passageway, esp one for trains or cars that passes under a mountain, river, or a congested urban area
[12] any passage or channel through or under something
[13] a dialect word for funnel
[14] obsolete the flue of a chimney
[15] (tr) to make or force (a way) through or under (something) to tunnel a hole in the wall ; to tunnel the cliff
[16] (intr; foll by through, under, etc ) to make or force a way (through or under something) he tunnelled through the bracken

Words related to Tunnel

shaft, mine, subway, hole, pit, channel, underpass, burrow, adit, tube, drift, passage, crosscut, penetrate, sap, excavate, undermine

Words nearby Tunnel

tunisian, tunja, tunka, tunker, tunnage, tunnel, tunnel diode, tunnel disease, tunnel effect, tunnel of love, tunnel vision

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 -elle

Other words from Tunnel

tun·nel·er ; especially British , tun·nel·ler , noun
tun·nel·like , adjective
sub·tun·nel , noun
un·tun·neled , adjective
un·tun·nelled , adjective

Word origin for Tunnel

C15: from Old French tonel cask, from tonne tun, from Medieval Latin tonna barrel, of Celtic origin

Synonyms for Tunnel

channel, hole, mine, pit, shaft, subway, underpass, adit, burrow, crosscut, drift, passage, tube, crawl space, crawlway, hole in the wall