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A habitational surname from Middle English for someone living by a brook.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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A surname from Hebrew, a transliteration and normalization of Hebrew ברך (barúkh, “blessed”).
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A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Brooks.
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A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Brooke.
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A town in Newton County, Indiana, United States.
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A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Tedburn St Mary parish, Teignbridge district, Devon, divided into Higher and Lower Brook (OS grid ref SX8091).
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A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Tavistock parish, West Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SX4772).
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A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Bramshaw parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU2714).
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A number of places in England:
A hamlet in King's Somborne parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU3428).
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A number of places in England:
A village in Brighstone parish, Isle of Wight (OS grid ref SZ3983).
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A number of places in England:
A village and civil parish in Ashford borough, Kent (OS grid ref TR0644).
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A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Albury parish, Guildford borough, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ0646).
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A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Witley parish, Waverley borough, Surrey (OS grid ref SU9338).
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A hamlet in Llanddowror community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN2609).
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noun
A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northeastern, US
Qualifier: parts of UK
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Synonyms: beck, burn, coulee, creek, gill, rill, rivulet, stream
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noun
A water meadow, or (in the plural) low, marshy ground.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Kent
Qualifier: Sussex
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verb
To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, transitive
Synonyms: abear, abide, aby, accept, allow, bear, bide, brook, dree, endure, forbear, go along with, live with, pass, pocket, pouch, put up with, stand, stick, stomach, suffer, swallow, take, take sitting down, thole, tolerate, undergang, undergo
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verb
To enjoy the use of; make use of; profit by; to use, enjoy, possess, or hold.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Qualifier: otherwise Scotland
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Synonyms: apply, employ, utilize, use
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verb
To earn; deserve.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: brook, deserve, earn, garner, merit, reap, win, be worthy of
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noun
a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: creek
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Broader terms: stream, watercourse
Narrower terms: brooklet, Bull Run, Aegospotami, Aegospotamos
verb
put up with something or somebody unpleasant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, abide, suffer, put up
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Broader terms: permit, allow, let, countenance
Narrower terms: accept, live with, swallow, stand for, hold still for, bear up, take lying down, take a joke, sit out, pay
History
* As an English surname, from the noun brook. * As a north German surname, from Low German Brook (“swamp, marsh”), related to the above. * As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Broek, from broek, also related to the above. * As a Jewish and German surname, Americanized from Bruck, Bruch (from Bruch (“wetland, marsh”)).
From Middle English brook, from Old English brōc (“brook; stream; torrent”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōk (“stream”).
From Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English brūcan (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūkan, from Proto-Germanic *brūkaną (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhruHg- (“to enjoy”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian bruke (“to need”), Dutch bruiken (“to use”), German Low German bruken (“to need”), German brauchen (“to need”), Swedish bruka (“to use”), Icelandic brúka (“to use”).
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