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Brook

//bɹʊk// name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A habitational surname from Middle English for someone living by a brook.
  2. 2
    A surname from Hebrew, a transliteration and normalization of Hebrew ברך (barúkh, “blessed”).
  3. 3
    A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Brooks.
  4. 4
    A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Brooke.
  5. 5
    A town in Newton County, Indiana, United States.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in England:; A hamlet in Tedburn St Mary parish, Teignbridge district, Devon, divided into Higher and Lower Brook (OS grid ref SX8091).
  2. 7
    A number of places in England:; A hamlet in Tavistock parish, West Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SX4772).
  3. 8
    A number of places in England:; A hamlet in Bramshaw parish, New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU2714).
  4. 9
    A number of places in England:; A hamlet in King's Somborne parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU3428).
  5. 10
    A number of places in England:; A village in Brighstone parish, Isle of Wight (OS grid ref SZ3983).
  6. 11
    A number of places in England:; A village and civil parish in Ashford borough, Kent (OS grid ref TR0644).
  7. 12
    A number of places in England:; A hamlet in Albury parish, Guildford borough, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ0646).
  8. 13
    A number of places in England:; A hamlet in Witley parish, Waverley borough, Surrey (OS grid ref SU9338).
  9. 14
    A hamlet in Llanddowror community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN2609).
Noun
  1. 1
    A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream. Northeastern, US

    "empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters"

  2. 2
    a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) wordnet
  3. 3
    A water meadow. Kent
  4. 4
    Low, marshy ground. Kent, in-plural
Verb
  1. 1
    To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate. formal, transitive

    "brook no refusal"

  2. 2
    put up with something or somebody unpleasant wordnet
  3. 3
    To enjoy the use of; make use of; profit by; to use, enjoy, possess, or hold. Scotland, transitive

    "Yea, my Lord: how brooks your Grace the ayre, / After your late toſſing on the breaking Seas?"

  4. 4
    To earn; deserve. obsolete, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English brūcan (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūkan, from Proto-Germanic *brūkaną (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to enjoy”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian bruke (“to need”), Dutch bruiken (“to use”), German Low German bruken (“to need”), German brauchen (“to need”), Swedish bruka (“to use”), Icelandic brúka (“to use”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English brook, from Old English brōc (“brook; stream; torrent”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōk (“stream”).

Etymology 3

* As an English surname, from the noun brook. * As a north German surname, from Low German Brook (“swamp, marsh”), related to the above. * As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Broek, from broek, also related to the above. * As a Jewish and German surname, Americanized from Bruck, Bruch (from Bruch (“wetland, marsh”)).

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