brand
pronunciation
How to pronounce brand in British English:
UK [brænd]
How to pronounce brand in American English:
US [brænd]
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- Noun:
- a name given to a product or service
- a recognizable kind
- identification mark on skin, made by burning
- a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning
- a symbol of disgrace or infamy
- a cutting or thrusting weapon with a long blade
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- Verb:
- burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals
- to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- mark or expose as infamous
Word Origin
- brand
- brand: [OE] A brand was originally a ‘piece of burning wood’; the word comes from West and North Germanic *brandaz, a derivative of the same base (*bran-, *bren-) as produced burn, brandy, and perhaps broil. In the 16th century it came to be applied to an ‘(identifying) mark made with a hot iron’, which provided the basis for the modern sense ‘particular make of goods’, a 19th-century development.A specialized (now archaic) sense of the word in English and other Germanic languages was ‘sword’ (perhaps from the flashing sword blade’s resemblance to a burning stick). This was borrowed into Vulgar Latin as *brando, and its derived verb *brandīre came into English via Old French as brandish [14]. Brand-new [16] may be from the notion of emerging pristine from the furnace.=> brandish, brandy, broil, burn
- brand (n.)
- Old English brand, brond "fire, flame; firebrand, piece of burning wood, torch," and (poetic) "sword," from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (cognates: Old Norse brandr, Old High German brant, Old Frisian brond "firebrand, blade of a sword," German brand "fire"), from root *bran-/*bren- (see burn (v.)). Meaning "identifying mark made by a hot iron" (1550s) broadened by 1827 to "a particular make of goods." Brand name is from 1922.
- brand (v.)
- c. 1400, "to brand, cauterize; stigmatize," originally of criminal marks or cauterized wounds, from brand (n.). As a means of marking property, 1580s; figuratively from c. 1600, often in a bad sense, with the criminal marking in mind. Related: Branded; branding.
Example
- 1. This car is a brand shaper .
- 2. In 1990 around 250000 of each brand were sold .
- 3. Kevlar is simply the brand name of an aramid manufactured by dupont .
- 4. Why do gap brand jeans appeal to people who seek intimacy in relationships ?
- 5. Perhaps women are thought best able to soften an authoritarian family brand , and make it more acceptable in a democracy .