Brant Definition

brănt
brants
noun
Any of a genus (Branta) of wild geese of Europe and North America, including the Canada goose and the barnacle goose; esp., a species (B. bernicla) found chiefly in the E U.S. and N Canada.
Webster's New World
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pronoun

A surname​.

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A town in New York.
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An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.

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adjective

(dialectal) Steep, precipitous.

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(Scotland) Smooth; unwrinkled.

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Other Word Forms of Brant

Noun

Singular:
brant
Plural:
brants

Origin of Brant

  • Variant of brent(-goose) possibly from Middle English brende brindled brindled

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old English brant. Cognate with Scots brent, Icelandic brattr.

    From Wiktionary

  • Origin uncertain but similar to Old Norse brandgas (sheldrake).

    From Wiktionary

Brant Sentence Examples

  • The cities of Strassburg, Nuremberg, Augsburg, Basel, became centres of learned coteries, which gathered round scholars like Wimpheling, Brant, Peutinger, Schedel, and Pirckheimer, artists like Darer and Holbein, printers of the eminence of Froben.

  • At Brant Broughton for eighteen years he spent his time in study, the first result of which was his treatise on the Alliance between Church and State (1736).

  • Strassburg soon became one of the most flourishing of the imperial towns, and the names of natives or residents like Sebastian` Brant, Johann Tauler and Geiler von Kaisersberg show that its eminence was intellectual as well as material.

  • Warburton now received from Sir Robert Sutton the small living of Greasley, in Nottinghamshire, exchanged next year for that of Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire.

  • The book appeared in 1494 with woodcuts said to have been devised and perhaps partly executed by Brant himself.

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Words Starting With

BBRBRA

Words Ending With

TNTANT

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