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See also:Bronzeandbronzé

English

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WOTD – 21 February 2010

Etymology

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EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
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A bronze medallion

FromFrenchbronze (1511); fromItalianbronzo (13th c.), of uncertain origin (q.v.). First use appearsc. 1721 in the writings ofMatthew Prior (for which, see citation below).

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Noun

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bronze (countable anduncountable,pluralbronzes)

  2. (uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-madealloy ofcopper, usually in combination withtin, but also with one or more othermetals.
    • 1720, Matthew Prior,Poems on Several Occasions, page339:
      How little gives thee joy or pain; A print, abronze, a flower, a root.
    Coordinate term:brass
  4. (countable and uncountable) Areddish-browncolour, the colour of bronze.
    bronze: 
    Coordinate terms:brass,copper
  5. (countable) Awork of art made of bronze, especially asculpture.
  6. Abronze medal; third place.
    She wanted to win the tournament, but had to settle for thebronze after being beaten in the semi-finals.
  7. Boldness;impudence.
    Synonym:brass

Derived terms

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Translations

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alloy
colour
work of art made of bronze
bronze medal—seebronze medal
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Adjective

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bronze (comparativemorebronze,superlativemostbronze)

  1. Made of bronze metal.
    Synonym:bronzen
    • 1907 August,Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, inThe 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 burnishedbronze foliations of grille and door.
  2. Having areddish-browncolour.
  3. (of the skin)Tanned;darkened as a result ofexposure to the sun.
    • 2016, Kit Moulton,Annabella, page108:
      That girl was dynamite. Dark hair with killer blue eyes,bronze skin, and an exquisite full-figured body.

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Translations

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made of bronze
having a bronze colour
tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun

Verb

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bronze (third-person singular simple presentbronzes,present participlebronzing,simple past and past participlebronzed)

  1. (transitive) Toplate with bronze.
    My motherbronzed my first pair of baby shoes.
  2. (transitive) Tocolor bronze; (of the sun) totan.
    • 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 andbronzed its ceiling of woven leaves when Bess returned to the clearing.
    • 1961,Freya Stark, chapter 8, inDust in the Lion's Paw: Autobiography 1939-1946, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, page122:
      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 andbronzed.
  3. (intransitive, of the skin) Tochange to a bronze ortan colour due toexposure to the sun.
    • 2006, Melissa Lassor, “Out of Darkness”, inWatching Time, page124:
      His skin began tobronze as he worked in our garden each day.
  4. (transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; tobrazen.
  5. (intransitive) To finish in third place; to win abronze medal.
    • 1979, Amateur Athletic Union of the United States,AAU News:
      Louganis' runner-up count was 822.09, and Boggsbronzed at 783.78.
    • 1992, Martin Connors, Diane L. Dupuis, Brad Morgan,The Olympics Factbook: A Spectator's Guide to the Winter and Summer Games, Visible Ink Press:
      Her speedskating teammate, Leah Poulos, captured a 1000m silver in 1976, behind Tatiana Averina of the Soviet Union, who also took the gold in the 3000m andbronzed in the 500m and the 1500m.
    • 2016 March 17, Andrew Lapin, “'The Bronze' Is The Story Of A Mighty, Nasty Gymnast”, inNPR‎[2]:
      Rauch plays has-been athlete Hope Ann Greggory, whobronzed at the Olympics by prevailing over a performance-incurred injury that would later effectively end her career.

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Translations

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to plate with bronze
to color bronze
to tan—seetan

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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bronze m (pluralbronzes)

  1. bronze(metal)
  2. bronze medal

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Further reading

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Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchbronze.

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Noun

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bronze c (singular definitebronzen,plural indefinitebronzer)

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

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Declension ofbronze
common
gender		singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativebronzebronzenbronzerbronzerne
genitivebronzesbronzensbronzersbronzernes

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromItalianbronzo.

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Noun

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bronze m (pluralbronzes)

  1. bronze(metal, work of art)

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Descendants

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Verb

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bronze

  1. inflection ofbronzer:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
    2. second-personsingularimperative

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Greenlandic

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromDanishbronze; seeEnglish bronze etymology.

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bronze

  1. bronze

Occitan

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Noun

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bronze m (pluralbronzes)

  1. bronze

Portuguese

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PortugueseWikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchbronze, fromItalianbronzo,[1][2] either fromByzantine Greekβροντησίον(brontēsíon), presumably fromΒρεντήσιον(Brentḗsion,“Brindisi”), known for the manufacture of bronze; or ultimately fromPersianبرنج(berenj, beranj,“brass”) ~پرنگ(pereng,“copper”).

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  • Hyphenation:bron‧ze

Noun

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bronze m (pluralbronzes)

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

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References

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  1. ^“bronze”, inDicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
  2. ^“bronze”, inDicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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