"bombora" meaning in English

See bombora in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: bomboras [plural], bomboora [alternative]
Etymology: From Australian Aboriginal, most likely Dharug bumbora (“a current off Dobroyd Head, Port Jackson”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|xdk|bumbora||a current off Dobroyd Head, Port Jackson}} Dharug bumbora (“a current off Dobroyd Head, Port Jackson”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} bombora (plural bomboras)
  1. (Australia) A shallow isolated piece of reef located a distance offshore. Tags: Australia Synonyms: bomb

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "xdk",
        "3": "bumbora",
        "4": "",
        "5": "a current off Dobroyd Head, Port Jackson"
      },
      "expansion": "Dharug bumbora (“a current off Dobroyd Head, Port Jackson”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Australian Aboriginal, most likely Dharug bumbora (“a current off Dobroyd Head, Port Jackson”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bomboras",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bomboora",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bombora (plural bomboras)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Surfing",
          "orig": "en:Surfing",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              164,
              171
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1963, Patrick Gordon Taylor, The Sky Beyond, page 269:",
          "text": "The superior local knowledge of the Easter Island boatmen was a distracting influence, but on the way in I had decided to anchor on the sandy patch close under the bombora.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              83,
              91
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 10:",
          "text": "The remainder of my life was indoor stuff […] but even from school I could see the bomboras breaking way out to sea on a high swell, there at the corner of my eye.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              62,
              69
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2008, Yvette Allum, The Lonely Sea, unnumbered page:",
          "text": "It took Sue Dockar a good half hour to swim out to her target bombora, a moderate swim in spearfishing terms.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              111,
              119
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2012, Phil Jarratt, Australia's Hottest 100 Surfing Legends, unnumbered page:",
          "text": "He was also considered to be one of Australia's best big-wave riders, tackling the Queenscliff and Bare Island bomboras on the very biggest days.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shallow isolated piece of reef located a distance offshore."
      ],
      "id": "en-bombora-en-noun-~qivQ9Sz",
      "links": [
        [
          "reef",
          "reef"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia) A shallow isolated piece of reef located a distance offshore."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bomb"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bombora"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "xdk",
        "3": "bumbora",
        "4": "",
        "5": "a current off Dobroyd Head, Port Jackson"
      },
      "expansion": "Dharug bumbora (“a current off Dobroyd Head, Port Jackson”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Australian Aboriginal, most likely Dharug bumbora (“a current off Dobroyd Head, Port Jackson”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bomboras",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bomboora",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bombora (plural bomboras)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Dharug",
        "English terms derived from Dharug",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Surfing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              164,
              171
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1963, Patrick Gordon Taylor, The Sky Beyond, page 269:",
          "text": "The superior local knowledge of the Easter Island boatmen was a distracting influence, but on the way in I had decided to anchor on the sandy patch close under the bombora.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              83,
              91
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 10:",
          "text": "The remainder of my life was indoor stuff […] but even from school I could see the bomboras breaking way out to sea on a high swell, there at the corner of my eye.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              62,
              69
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2008, Yvette Allum, The Lonely Sea, unnumbered page:",
          "text": "It took Sue Dockar a good half hour to swim out to her target bombora, a moderate swim in spearfishing terms.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              111,
              119
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2012, Phil Jarratt, Australia's Hottest 100 Surfing Legends, unnumbered page:",
          "text": "He was also considered to be one of Australia's best big-wave riders, tackling the Queenscliff and Bare Island bomboras on the very biggest days.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A shallow isolated piece of reef located a distance offshore."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "reef",
          "reef"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia) A shallow isolated piece of reef located a distance offshore."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bomb"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bombora"
}

Download raw JSONL data for bombora meaning in English (2.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (9c82c1c and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.