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Definition of 'brand' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) brand
kind, grade, or make, as indicated by a stamp, trademark, or the like:
the best brand of coffee.

2.  brand
a mark made by burning or otherwise, to indicate kind, grade, make, ownership, etc.

3.  brand
a mark formerly put upon criminals with a hot iron.

4.  brand
any mark of disgrace; stigma.

5.  brand
a distinctive kind or variety:
an unfunny brand of humor.

6.  brand
a burning or partly burned piece of wood.

7.  brand
Archaic. a sword.

8. (v.t.) brand
to label or mark with or as if with a brand.

9.  brand
to mark with disgrace or infamy; stigmatize.

10.  brand
to impress indelibly:
The plane crash was branded on her mind.

11.  brand
to give a brand name to:
branded merchandise.

12.  brand
to promote as a brand name.

Etymology:  (bef. 950; ME, OE: burning, a burning piece of wood, torch, sword; c. OFris, MD brand, OHG brant, ON brandr; akin to burn1)

Definition of 'brand' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) trade name, brand name, brand, marque
a name given to a product or service

2. (noun) brand, make
a recognizable kind
"there's a new brand of hero in the movies now"; "what make of car is that?"

3. (noun) brand
identification mark on skin, made by burning

4. (noun) brand, firebrand
a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning

5. (noun) mark, stigma, brand, stain
a symbol of disgrace or infamy
"And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"--Genesis

6. (verb) sword, blade, brand, steel
a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard

7. (verb) brand
burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals

8. (verb) stigmatize, stigmatise, brand, denounce, mark
to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
"He denounced the government action"; "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock"

9. (verb) brand, trademark, brandmark
mark with a brand or trademark
"when this product is not branded it sells for a lower price"

10. (verb) post, brand
mark or expose as infamous
"She was branded a loose woman"


Definition of 'brand' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) brand
a particular product or set of products made by a company
a new brand of cell phone; the leading brand of motor oil

2.  brand
***a company's identity and the symbols that represent it
***to develop a brand

3.  brand
a type or way of doing sth
He has his own brand of logic.


Definition of 'brand' Webster Dictionary 

1. (verb) brand
a burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct

2. (verb) brand
a sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness

3. (verb) brand
a mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc., of the contents, or upon an animal, to designate ownership; -- also, a mark for a similar purpose made in any other way, as with a stencil. Hence, figurately: Quality; kind; grade; as, a good brand of flour

4. (verb) brand
a mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma

5. (verb) brand
an instrument to brand with; a branding iron

6. (verb) brand
any minute fungus which produces a burnt appearance in plants. The brands are of many species and several genera of the order Pucciniaei

7. (verb) brand
to burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc., or to mark as infamous (as a convict)

8. (verb) brand
to put an actual distinctive mark upon in any other way, as with a stencil, to show quality of contents, name of manufacture, etc

9. (verb) brand
fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon

10. (verb) brand
to mark or impress indelibly, as with a hot iron


Translation of 'brand' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a maker's name or trademark
a new brand; (

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: handelsnaam, handelsmerk Arabic flag Arabic: نوع، صنف جديد Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: търговска/фабрична марка
Brazilian flag Brazilian: marca Czech flag Czech: obchodní značka German flag German: die Marke
Danish flag Danish: mærke; mærkenavn Greek flag Greek: μάρκα Spanish flag Spanish: marca (registrada)
Estonian flag Estonian: kaubamärk Farsi flag Farsi: نام تجاری کالا Finnish flag Finnish: tuotemerkki
French flag French: marque (de fabrique) Hebrew flag Hebrew: מוּתָג Hindi flag Hindi: मार्का
Croatian flag Croatian: marka proizvoda Hungarian flag Hungarian: védjegy, márka Indonesian flag Indonesian: merek dagang
Icelandic flag Icelandic: vörumerki Italian flag Italian: marchio, marca Japanese flag Japanese: 商標
Korean flag Korean: 상표 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: firmos pavadinimas/ženkla Latvian flag Latvian: šķirne; firmas zīme/marka
Malay flag Malay: jenama Dutch flag Dutch: merk; merk- Norwegian flag Norwegian: (vare)merke, fabrikat
Polish flag Polish: znak firmowy, marka Persian flag Persian: نام تجاری کالا Pashto flag Pashto: تجارتی نښان د یو تجار
Portuguese flag Portuguese: marca Romanian flag Romanian: marcă (de fabrică) Russian flag Russian: торговая марка
Slovak flag Slovak: značka; značkové meno Slovenian flag Slovenian: (zaščitna) znamka Serbian flag Serbian: brend
Swedish flag Swedish: märke, sort Thai flag Thai: ยี่ห้อ Turkish flag Turkish: marka
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 品牌,商標 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: фабрична марка, трейд-мар Urdu flag Urdu: مارکہ ، چھاپ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: nhãn mác Chinese flag Chinese: 牌子,商标

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