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Noun bull has 11 senses
- bull - uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle
--1 is a kind of cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus
--1 has part: horn
--1 has particulars: bullock
- bull, bruiser, strapper, Samson - a large and strong and heavyset man; "he was a bull of a man"; "a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got"
--2 is a kind of man, adult male
- bullshit, bull, Irish bull, horseshit, shit, crap, dogshit - obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull"
--3 is a kind of bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash
- bull - a serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment"
--4 is a kind of blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo
- bull, cop, copper, fuzz, pig - uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
--5 is a kind of policeman, police officer, officer
- bull - an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later
--6 is a kind of investor
Antonyms: bear
- Taurus, Bull - (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus
--7 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
- Taurus, Taurus the Bull, Bull - the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20
--8 is a kind of sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house
- bull's eye, bull - the center of a target
--9 is a kind of center, centre, midpoint
--9 is a part of target, mark
- bull, papal bull - a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)
--10 is a kind of decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript
- bull - mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle
--11 is a kind of placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
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