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bronze

See also: Bronze and bronzé

English

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Etymology

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A bronze medallion

From French bronze (1511), from Italian bronzo (13th cent.), of uncertain origin; see it for more. First use appears c. 1721 in the writings of Matthew Prior. See cite below.

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bronze (countable and uncountable, plural bronzes)

  2. (uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
    • 1720, Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, page 339:
      How little gives thee joy or pain; A print, a bronze, a flower, a root.
    Coordinate term: brass
  3. (countable and uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
    bronze:  
  4. (countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
  5. A bronze medal.
    She wanted to win the tournament, but had to settle for the bronze after being beaten in the semi-finals.
  6. Boldness; impudence.
    Synonym: brass

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Adjective

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bronze (comparative more bronze, superlative most bronze)

  1. Made of bronze metal.
    Synonym: bronzen
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
  2. Having a reddish-brown colour.
  3. (of the skin) Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.
    • 2016, Kit Moulton, Annabella, page 108:
      That girl was dynamite. Dark hair with killer blue eyes, bronze skin, and an exquisite full-figured body.

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Verb

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bronze (third-person singular simple present bronzes, present participle bronzing, simple past and past participle bronzed)

  1. (transitive) To plate with bronze.
    My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.
  2. (transitive) To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
    • 1925, DuBose Heyward, Porgy‎[1], London: Jonathan Cape, Part IV, p. 137:
      The sun was so low that its level rays shot through the tunnels of the forest and bronzed its ceiling of woven leaves when Bess returned to the clearing.
    • 1961, Freya Stark, chapter 8, in Dust in the Lion's Paw: Autobiography 1939-1946, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, page 122:
      North is the bay of Acre, lovely in shape, and, far, far beyond, the cloudy vision of Hermon, its huge landscape now only attainable with a police pass—beautifully solitary except for good-looking young men of the police patrols, all fit and bronzed.
  3. (intransitive, of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
    • 2006, Melissa Lassor, “Out of Darkness”, in Watching Time, page 124:
      His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.
  4. (transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.

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Noun

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bronze m (plural bronzes)

  1. bronze (metal)
  2. bronze medal

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Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French bronze.

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bronze c (singular definite bronzen, plural indefinite bronzer)

  1. (uncountable) bronze (element; colour)
  2. (countable) bronze (work of art made of bronze), bronze medal

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Declension of bronze
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bronze bronzen bronzer bronzerne
genitive bronzes bronzens bronzers bronzernes

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian bronzo.

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bronze m (plural bronzes)

  1. bronze (metal, work of art)

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  • → Danish: bronze
  • → English: bronze
  • → Norwegian: bronse
  • → Persian: برنز (boronz)
  • → Portuguese: bronze

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bronze

  1. inflection of bronzer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Greenlandic

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Borrowed from Danish bronze; see English bronze etymology.

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bronze

  1. bronze

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bronze m (plural bronzes)

  1. bronze

Portuguese

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Borrowed from French bronze, from Italian bronzo,[1][2] either from Byzantine Greek βροντησίον (brontēsíon), presumably from Βρεντήσιον (Brentḗsion, “Brindisi”), known for the manufacture of bronze; or ultimately from Persian برنج (berenj, beranj, “brass”) ~ پرنگ (pereng, “copper”).

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  • Hyphenation: bron‧ze

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bronze m (plural bronzes)

  1. bronze (a naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper)
  2. skin tan

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References

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  1. ^ “bronze”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
  2. ^ “bronze”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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