/brænd/
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Translation
The name a company puts on its products so people know who made them.
Word origin
From Old English brand, a burning piece of wood; later a mark burned onto goods or cattle to show who owned them.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- brand
- English cognates
- burn
Grammar
Gender
Pluralbrands
Examples
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"Brand" asks which company's coffee it is.
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Here "brand" means the company name and everything people think about it.
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"Brand new" is a fixed phrase meaning completely new, never used.
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