name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
brach
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /bɹæt͡ʃ/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -ætʃ
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /bɹæk/
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rhymes with -æk
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CMU ARPABET: B R AE1 CH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A commune in Gironde department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
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noun
Meaning 3
Originally, a synonym of scent hound (“a hunting dog that tracks prey using its sense of smell rather than by its vision”); later, any female hound; a bitch hound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Topics: hobbies, hunting, lifestyle
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Synonyms: brachet
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noun
Meaning 4
A despicable or disagreeable woman; a bitch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, derogatory
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noun
Meaning 5
Clipping of brachiopod.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, archaic, clipping, informal
Topics: biology, history, human-sciences, natural-sciences, paleontology, sciences
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History
Etymology
From Late Middle English brache (“hunting dog, especially a small scent hound; female dog, bitch (?); lapdog (?)”), probably a back-formation from Old French brachès, brachez, the plural of brachet (“female scent hound”), a diminutive of brac, from Old High German braccho, bracco, bracko (“scent hound”) (modern German Bracke); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Germanic *brēkijaną (compare Latin fragrō (“to emit a smell”), Middle High German bræhen (“to smell (something); to use the sense of smell; to have a (bad) smell”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bhreHg- (“to have a strong odour, to smell”). cognates * Italian bracco * Medieval Latin bracco * Occitan brac * Spanish braco
Clipping of brach(iopod).