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brooch

/bɹəʊtʃ/US/bɹoʊt͡ʃ/

brooch noun: a piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.

Noun

brooch (plural brooches)

  1. A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
    Synonyms:
    breastpin
  2. A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.

Verb

brooch (third-person singular simple present brooches, present participle brooching, simple past and past participle brooched)

  1. (transitive) To adorn as with a brooch.
    • Not the imperious show / Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall / Be brooch'd with me.c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, scene 15, lines 23–25

brooch meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

brooch in Hindi

ब्रोच

brooch in Tamil

அணியூக்கு, உடைஊசி

brooch in Marathi

ब्रोच

brooch in Urdu

بروچ
More languagesFewer languages
brooch in Bengali
ব্রোচ, ব্রোচকে
brooch in Telugu
బ్రూచ్, బ్రోచ్
brooch in Malayalam
ബ്രോച്ച്, സൂചിപ്പതക്കം, സ്ത്രീകൾ മാറിൽ ധരിക്കുന്ന സൂചിപ്പതക്കം, ബ്രൂച്ച്
brooch in Odia
ବ୍ରୋଚ
brooch in Tagalog
brotse
brooch in Arabic
بْرُوش brūš
brooch in Malay
kerongsang
brooch in Thai
เข็มกลัด kěm-glàt
brooch in Vietnamese
trâm, trâm gài đầu, thoa

Examples of brooch in a sentence

  • The brooch showed the profile of a Victorian woman.
  • “Whatever are ye lookin' at, Neil?” his mother demanded, looking up from fastening her favorite garnet brooch.
  • The woman frowned and tinkered with one of the cheap brooches that held her shoulderstraps.

All 11 example sentences with brooch

Synonyms of brooch

Forms of brooch

Noun
pluralbrooches
Verb
third-person singular presentbrooches
present participlebrooching
past participlebrooched
pastbrooched

Plural of brooch: brooches

Origin of brooch

Variant of broach.

Words formed from brooch

Words that rhyme with brooch

Questions about brooch

What does brooch mean?
Brooch means a piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
What is brooch in Hindi?
Brooch in Hindi is ब्रोच. See Brooch meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is brooch?
Brooch can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce brooch?
Brooch is pronounced /bɹəʊtʃ/ (UK).
What is the plural of brooch?
The plural of brooch is brooches.

Words near brooch in the dictionary

  1. bronzites
  2. bronzitite
  3. bronzitites
  4. bronzy
  5. broo
  6. brooch
  7. brooched
  8. brooches
  9. brooching
  10. broochlike
  11. brood

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: brooch (page history and authors); brooch (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); brooch (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); brooch (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); brooch (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); brooch (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); brooch (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); brooch (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); brooch (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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