What does "brazil" mean?
A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood.
Brazil
/ˈbɹæzəl/ name, noun
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood.
- Grammar: brazil is listed as name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: brasil, brazil nut, congress, country.
- Usage evidence: To our surprise, she has gone to Brazil alone.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood. obsolete
"A small Quantity of Saffron will Tinct more then a very great Quantity of Brasil."
- 2 three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell wordnet
- 3 The hard, brown wood of a certain species of the tribe Caesalpinieae; originally sappan (Biancaea sappan), of the East Indies, and later brazilwood, Paubrasilia echinata.
"The Prouince Brasilia tooke his name of the woode called Brasill."
- 4 A Brazil nut.
"I picked up a handful of brazils from the bowl."
- 5 A seam of coal containing iron pyrites
Proper Noun
- 1 A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil. Capital: Brasília.
"In February, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe in Brazil made brief contact with the outside world before returning to the Amazon rainforest."
- 2 A surname from Irish.
- 3 A city, the county seat of Clay County, Indiana, United States.
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"To our surprise, she has gone to Brazil alone."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "brazil"?
Common synonyms include: brasil, brazil nut, congress, country, federative republic of brazil, nation.
How do you use "brazil" in a sentence?
To our surprise, she has gone to Brazil alone.
How do you pronounce "brazil"?
Pronounced /ˈbɹæzəl/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Portuguese Brazil, older spelling of Brasil, from brasil (“brazilwood”), originally ‘red like an ember’, from brasa (“ember”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brasō (“gleed, crackling coal”), and -il (“-ile, -like, -y”) from Latin -īlis (“adjective suffix”).
Etymology 2
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Breasail (“descendant of Breasal”), a byname meaning "strife".