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breme

/bɹiːm/

breme adjective: of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous.

Adjective

breme

  1. (Scotland, poetic, obsolete except Northern England) Of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous.
    • Let me, ah! lette me in your folds ye lock, / Ere the breme winter breede you greater griefe.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC
    • The same to him glad Summer or the Winter breme.1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC

Forms of breme

alternative formbrim

Origin of breme

From Middle English brem, breme, from Old English brēme (“famous, glorious, noble”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōmi, from Proto-Germanic *brōmiz (“famous”). Cognate with Latin fremō (“to murmur; to roar”), Ancient Greek βρέμω (brémō, “to roar”), Polish brzmieć (“to be heard”).

Words that rhyme with breme

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Questions about breme

What does breme mean?
Breme means of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous.
What part of speech is breme?
Breme is an adjective.
How do you pronounce breme?
Breme is pronounced /bɹiːm/.

Words near breme in the dictionary

  1. Bremainer
  2. Bremainers
  3. Bremaining
  4. Bremains
  5. bremazocine
  6. breme
  7. bremelanotide
  8. Bremelo
  9. Bremelos
  10. Bremen
  11. Bremer

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