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English

Pronunciation

, IPA: /bruːd/,
An audio transcript can be found at en-us-brood.ogg
Homophones: brewed
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-uːd|-uːd

Noun

What comes out of an egg.
The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time and cared for by the same mother.
The children in one family.

Synonyms

Also see flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin.

Translations

Danish: {{t+|da|kuld|n}}

Finnish: ,

: {{t-|hr|leglo|n}}
: broedsel
: {{t+|fr|couvée|f}}

: {{t-|de|Brut|f}}
: {{t+|it|covata|f}}
: polluelo

Verb

To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
To dwell upon moodily and at length.
to protect
: He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.

Translations

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French:
German:

Hebrew: לדגור (lidgor)
Italian:

Finnish:
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Italian:

: broeden

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Afrikaans

Noun

brood

bread

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Dutch

Pronunciation

An audio transcript can be found at Nl-brood.ogg

Noun

bread
(metonymy) livelihood, especially in expressions like dagelijks brood

Derived terms

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Brood \Brood\ (br[=o]ch), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Brooded; p. pr.
& vb. n. Brooding.]
1. To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of
warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and
cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and
protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
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Birds of calm sir brooding on the charmed wave.
--Milton.
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2. To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a
subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of
gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or
on; as, to brood over misfortunes.
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Brooding on unprofitable gold. --Dryden.
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Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt
like one who has evoked a spirit. --Hawthorne.
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When with downcast eyes we muse and brood.
--Tennyson.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Brood \Brood\ (br[=oo]d), n. [OE. brod, AS. br[=o]d; akin to D.
broed, OHG. bruot, G. brut, and also to G. br["u]he broth,
MHG. br["u]eje, and perh. to E. brawn, breath. Cf. Breed,
v. t.]
1. The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood
of chickens.
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As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
--Luke xiii.
34.
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A hen followed by a brood of ducks. --Spectator.
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2. The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same
time or not; young children of the same mother, especially
if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman
with a brood of children.
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The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood.
--Wordsworth.
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3. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
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Flocks of the airy brood,
(Cranes, geese or long-necked swans). --Chapman.
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4. (Mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
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To sit on brood, to ponder. [Poetic] --Shak.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Brood \Brood\, a.
1. Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
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2. Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock;
having young; as, a brood sow.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Brood \Brood\ (br[=oo]d), v. t.
1. To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her
chickens.
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2. To cherish with care. [R.]
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3. To think anxiously or moodily upon.
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You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne.
--Dryden.
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WordNet brood
n : the young of an animal cared for at one time
v 1: think moodily or anxiously about something [syn: dwell]
2: hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing;
"The terrible vision brooded over her all day long" [syn:
hover, loom, bulk large]
3: be in a huff and display one's displeasure; "She is pouting
because she didn't get what she wanted" [syn: sulk, pout]
4: be in a huff; be silent or sullen [syn: grizzle, stew]
5: sit on (eggs); "Birds brood"; "The female covers the eggs"
[syn: hatch, cover, incubate]

Moby Dictionary
agonize , animal kingdom , be abstracted , be gravid , be knocked up ,
be pregnant , be with child , blood , breed , carry , carry young ,
chew the cud , children , clan , class , clock , clutch , consider ,
contemplate , cover , debate , deliberate , deme , descendants , descent ,
despair , despond , digest , family , farrow , folk , folks , fret , fruit ,
fry , gens , gestate , get , grandchildren , great-grandchildren , hatch ,
hearth , heirs , homefolks , hostages to fortune , house , household ,
incubate , inheritors , introspect , issue , kids , kind , line , lineage ,
litter , little ones , matriclan , meditate , menage , mope , muse ,
muse on , muse over , nation , nest , new generation , offspring , order ,
patriclan , people , perpend , phratry , phyle , pine , plant kingdom ,
play around with , play with , ponder , ponder over , posterity , pout ,
progeniture , progeny , race , reflect , rising generation , ruminate ,
ruminate over , seed , sept , set , sit , sons , spat , spawn , species ,
speculate , stem , stirps , stock , strain , study , succession , sulk ,
totem , toy with , treasures , tribe , weigh , worry , young , younglings ,
youngsters