bronze
English edit
Etymology edit
1730-40; from French bronze (1511), from Italian bronzo (13th cent.), of uncertain origin; see it for more.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /bɹɒnz/
- (US) IPA(key): /bɹɑnz/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒnz
Noun edit
bronze (countable and uncountable, plural bronzes)
- (uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
- Coordinate term: brass
- (countable and uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
- bronze:
- (countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
- A bronze medal.
- She wanted to win the tournament, but had to settle for the bronze after being beaten in the semi-finals.
- Boldness; impudence.
- Synonym: brass
- 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
- Embrown'd with native bronze, lo! Henley stands.
Derived terms edit
- aluminium bronze
- bronze age
- bronze blue
- bronze diabetes
- bronze disease
- bronze featherback
- bronze fennel
- bronze green
- bronze medal
- bronze medalist
- bronze medallist
- bronze race
- bronze steel
- bronze whaler
- bronze-wing
- bronze-winged jacana
- bronze yellow
- Corinthian bronze
- gold-bronze
- little bronze cuckoo
- silicon bronze
- steel bronze
- vanadium bronze
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Adjective edit
bronze (comparative more bronze, superlative most bronze)
- 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.
- Having a reddish-brown colour.
- (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 edit
bronze (third-person singular simple present bronzes, present participle bronzing, simple past and past participle bronzed)
- (transitive) To plate with bronze.
- My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.
- (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.
- (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.
- (transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
- 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
- the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead
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Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbɾon.zə]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈbɾon.ze]
Audio (Valencian) (file) - Rhymes: -onze
Noun edit
bronze m (plural bronzes)
- bronze (metal)
- bronze medal
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “bronze” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “bronze”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “bronze” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “bronze” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
bronze c (singular definite bronzen, plural indefinite bronzer)
- (uncountable) bronze (element; colour)
- (countable) bronze (work of art made of bronze), bronze medal
Inflection edit
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | bronze | bronzen | bronzer | bronzerne |
genitive | bronzes | bronzens | bronzers | bronzernes |
Further reading edit
- bronze on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bronze m (plural bronzes)
- bronze (metal, work of art)
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Descendants edit
- → Danish: bronze
- → Greenlandic: bronze
- → English: bronze
- → Norwegian: bronse
- → Persian: برنز (boronz)
- → Portuguese: bronze
Verb edit
bronze
- inflection of bronzer:
Further reading edit
- “bronze”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Greenlandic edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Danish bronze; see English bronze etymology.
Noun edit
bronze
Occitan edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Béarn) (file)
Noun edit
bronze m (plural bronzes)
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
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”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: bron‧ze
Noun edit
bronze m (plural bronzes)
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References edit
- ^ “bronze” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “bronze” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.