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name
A bear character in fairy stories, etc., especially when anthropomorphised.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: literary
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name
A surname from Dutch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
An unincorporated community in Elliott County, Kentucky, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A borough of Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A folk name for a bear, especially the brown bear, Ursus arctos.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
large ferocious bear of Eurasia
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: brown bear, Ursus arctos
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Broader terms: bear
Narrower terms: Syrian bear, Ursus arctos syriacus, grizzly, grizzly bear, silvertip, silver-tip, Ursus horribilis, Ursus arctos horribilis, Alaskan brown bear, Kodiak bear, Kodiak, Ursus middendorffi, Ursus arctos middendorffi
noun
a conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox'
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: bear
History
From Dutch bruin (“brown”), used as a name for the bear in Reynard the Fox.
* As a Dutch surname, borrowed from Dutch Bruin, from the adjective bruin (“brown”). Compare Braun. * As an English surname, possibly a pronunciation of the French surname Brun, from the adjective brun (“brown”), related to above. * As an Alemannic German surname, variant of Bruhin.
From Middle Dutch bruun (“brown”) via William Caxton's 1485 translation of a Dutch version of the legend of Reynard the Fox. Bruin is the bear, named for his brown color. Doublet of brown.
