Definitions for bronze
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Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. bronzenoun

   an alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin

2. bronzeadjective

   a sculpture made of bronze

3. bronze, bronzyadjective

   of the color of bronze

4. bronzeverb

   made from or consisting of bronze

5. bronzeverb

   give the color and appearance of bronze to something

   "bronze baby shoes"

6. tan, bronzeverb

   get a tan, from wind or sun

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. bronzenoun

   A natural or man-made alloy of copper, usually of tin, but also with one or more other metals.

2. bronzenoun

   A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.

3. bronzenoun

   A bronze medal

4. bronzeverb

   To plate with bronze.

   My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.

5. bronzeverb

   To color bronze.

6. bronzeverb

   To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.

7. bronzeadjective

   Made of bronze metal.

8. bronzeadjective

   Having a reddish-brown colour.

9. bronzeadjective

   Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.

10. Etymology: From bronzo, from bronzino, from aes Brundisinus. Otherwise from برنج.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Bronzenoun

   Etymology: bronze, Fr.

   1. Brass.

   Imbrown’d with native bronze, lo! Henley stands,
   Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands. Alexander Pope, Dunc.

   2. A medal.

   I view with anger and disdain,
   How little gives thee joy or pain;
   A print, a bronze, a flower, a root,
   A shell, a butterfly can do’t. Matthew Prior.

Wikipedia(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Bronze

   Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids such as arsenic or silicon. These additions produce a range of alloys that may be harder than copper alone, or have other useful properties, such as strength, ductility, or machinability. The archaeological period in which bronze was the hardest metal in widespread use is known as the Bronze Age. The beginning of the Bronze Age in western Eurasia and India is conventionally dated to the mid-4th millennium BCE (~3500 BCE), and to the early 2nd millennium BCE in China; elsewhere it gradually spread across regions. The Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age starting from about 1300 BCE and reaching most of Eurasia by about 500 BCE, although bronze continued to be much more widely used than it is in modern times. Because historical artworks were often made of brasses (copper and zinc) and bronzes with different compositions, modern museum and scholarly descriptions of older artworks increasingly use the generalized term "copper alloy" instead.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Bronzeadjective

   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

2. Bronzeadjective

   a statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze

3. Bronzeadjective

   a yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze

4. Bronzeadjective

   boldness; impudence; "brass."

5. Bronzenoun

   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

6. Bronzenoun

   to make hard or unfeeling; to brazen

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Bronze

   Bronze race is a term used by early 20th century Latin American writers of the indigenista and americanista schools to refer to the mestizo population that arose in America with the arrival of European colonists and their intermingling with the New World's indigenous Native American peoples. Mexican poet Amado Nervo wrote "La Raza de Bronce" as an elegiac poem in honor of former president Benito Juárez in 1902. Bolivian indigenista writer Alcides Arguedas used the term in his 1919 work, La Raza de Bronce, a study of the natives of the Andean altiplano. It was later used by Mexican luminary José Vasconcelos in La Raza Cósmica. The term was revived in the 1960s by Chicano ethnic group MEChA to refer to Latinos in the United States and the people in Mexico as a unified "race", similar to the black and white races. In this sense it is largely synonymous to the notion of the Chicano nation. The decision to call it a separate "race" may have been influenced by the contemporary negative views of "ethnic" or "nation" based nationalism and positive views of "race" based nationalism. The notion was first enunciated in the Plan Espiritual de Aztlan document.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Bronze

   bronz, n. an alloy of copper and tin used in various ways since the most ancient times: anything cast in bronze: the colour of bronze: (fig.) impudence.—adj. made of bronze: coloured like bronze.—v.t. to give the appearance of bronze to: (fig.) to harden.—adj. Bronzed, coated with bronze: hardened.—ns. Bronze′-steel, or Steel-bronze, a specially hardened bronze; Bronze′-wing, Bronze′-pi′geon, a species of Australian pigeon having wings marked with a lustrous bronze colour.—v.t. Bronz′ify, to make into bronze.—ns. Bronz′ing, the process of giving the appearance of bronze; Bronz′ite, a lustrous kind of diallage.—adj. Bronz′y, having the appearance of bronze.—Bronze age or period, a term in prehistoric archæology denoting the condition or stage of culture of a people using bronze as the material for cutting implements and weapons—as a stage of culture coming between the use of stone and the use of iron for those purposes—not an absolute division of time, but a relative condition of culture. [Fr.—It. bronzo—L. Brundusium, the modern Brindisi.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. bronze

   See Ordnance, Metals for, Bronze.

2. bronze

   Gun-barrels are bronzed by acting upon them with the chloride or butter of antimony, or with hydrochloric or nitric acids, when the surface of the iron gets partially eaten into, and covered with a thin film of oxide, after which the gun-barrel is thoroughly cleaned, oiled, and burnished. A brownish shade is thus communicated to the barrel, which protects it from rust, and at the same time renders it less conspicuous to an enemy.

Entomology(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Bronze

   the color of old brass.

Matched Categories

1. • Copper-base Alloy
   • Discolor
   • Dye

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bronze' in Nouns Frequency: #2112

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1. bonzer

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bronze in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bronze in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of bronze in a Sentence

1. Homer:

   It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.

2. Vincent Zhou:

   It also was difficult to see the results because I knew I could medal, i'd been training consistently at a level to score like that and win a bronze medal. It was a difficult day for me.

3. Henrik Stenson:

   It has a slightly different feel and it should have, it is the Olympics, the beauty of this event is if you are third you are actually going to be leaving with something. If you are third at a major you get world ranking points and a nice check -- but I would definitely trade a third at a major with a bronze medal.

4. Harry Marra:

   She is just steady all the way through, if Brianne Theisen-Eaton is steady in Rio, I can guarantee you Brianne Theisen-Eaton's in the medals. Whether it is the gold, silver, bronze, I don't know.

5. Jerry Coleman:

   If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

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