1. bronze - Noun
2. bronze - Adjective
3. bronze - Verb
4. bronze - Adjective Satellite
5. Bronze - Proper noun
An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.
A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.
A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.
Boldness; impudence; "brass."
To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.
To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
Source: Webster's dictionaryBronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart. Aeschylus
I have made a monument more lasting than bronze. Horace
In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave. Vitruvius
When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze. Cassandra Clare
Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not. David Gemmell
If gold falls into the mud, it won't become bronze. Turkish Proverb