bronze

Speech parts

1. bronze - Noun

2. bronze - Adjective

3. bronze - Verb

4. bronze - Adjective Satellite

5. Bronze - Proper noun

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

tan tawny copper bronzy tanned amber quicksilver auburn roan brown platinum Brisbane chrome sienna rusty
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Antonyms

blanch whiten neutral pale bleached lighten
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Hypernyms

color dye colour sculpture discolor discolour

Hyponyms

suntan bell metal gunmetal phosphor-bronze silicon bronze alpha bronze

Phrases with the word

Late Bronze Age Uchatius bronze bronze parotia architectural bronze bronze bass blue-bronze chub

Derivatives

bronzed bronzing

Anagrams

bonzer zebron bozner

Examples

Bronze 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

Close letter words and terms

bronydom bronyism bronyspeak bronze age Bronze Age collapse bronze ages