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Bream

//bɹɪm// name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A village in West Dean parish, Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO6005). countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
  2. 2
    any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis wordnet
  3. 3
    A species in that genus, Abramis brama. British
  4. 4
    any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae wordnet
  5. 5
    An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.
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  1. 6
    flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae wordnet
  2. 7
    A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera.
  3. 8
    flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.
  2. 2
    clean (a ship's bottom) with heat wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English breme, from Old French breme, bresme, braisme, brasme (whence French brème), from Frankish *brahsma, *brahsima (whence Dutch brasem), from Proto-West Germanic *brahsmō (whence Old High German brahsma, brahsmo, brahsina, brehsina (whence German Brasse, Brachse (“bream”))), from Proto-Germanic *brahsmô, *brahsinō, *brahsmaz (“bream”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brehwanaz (“shining, glittery, sparkly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerek- (“to shine”) (see braid (verb)).

Etymology 2

Compare broom, and German brennen (as in ein Schiff brennen).

Etymology 3

English surname, from an obsolete derivative of the root of the noun broom. Also from the adjective breme (“famous”). Compare the spelling variant Braham.

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