Dic: bulk (as somthing large or many)

• 1. the shadowy bulk of an ancient barn.
• 2. Bannol lowered his bulk carefully into the chair.
• 2. Despite his bulk he moved lightly on his feet.
• 3. The bulk of the text is essentially a review of these original documents.
• 3. The vast bulk of imports and exports are carried by sea.
• 4. They come from all over the world, though the bulk is from the Indian subcontinent.

1. N-SING : with supp | You can refer to something's bulk when you want to emphasize that it is very large.[WRITTEN]

2. N-SING : usu poss N | You can refer to a large person's body or to their weight or size as their bulk.

3. QUANT : QUANT of def-n | The bulk of something is most of it. (= majority)

4. Bulk is also a pronoun [in the meaning 3]

......... Cobuild