brand

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A name or logo that identifies a company's products or services.

   This is one of the most popular brands of coffee.

2. 2
   noun

   A particular product made by a company.

   Some brands of cereal contain a lot of sugar.

3. 3
   verb

   To describe someone as having a bad quality, often unfairly.

   The newspaper branded him a liar.

4. 4
   verb

   To burn a mark onto an animal to show who owns it.

   The ranchers branded the cattle every spring.

Common collocations

• brand name Adjective + noun

From Middle English brand, from Old English brand (“fire; flame; burning; torch; sword”), from Proto-West Germanic *brand, from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“flame; flaming; fire-brand; torch; sword”), derived from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to boul; brew”). Cognate with Scots brand, West Frisian brân (“fire”), Dutch brand, German Brand, Danish brand, Swedish brand (“blaze, fire”), Icelandic brandur, French brand (< Germanic). More distantly cognate with Proto-Slavic *gorěti (“to burn”).

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External links

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