Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "bracket" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Capable Of

hold shelf

Derived Terms

Iverson bracket Lie bracket angle bracket banana bracket birch bracket bottom bracket bracket buster bracket clock bracket creep bracket fungus bracket race bracket racer bracket racing bracketer bracketless bracketlike bracketology bracketry bracketwise brackety broket bulge bracket corner bracket curly bracket curly-bracket language diamond bracket gas bracket hair bracket hooked bracket income bracket income tax bracket left bracket lenticular bracket multibracket pointy bracket price bracket right bracket round bracket shelf bracket square bracket superbracket tax bracket tortoise shell bracket unbracket

Etymologically Related To

bragget breech britches

Inflected/Variant Forms

bragget

Context

19th century algebra computer science engineering land surveying military nautical phenomenology philosophy photography sports typography uk us

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

edit group hold hold up punctuation punctuation mark redact set support support sustain

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

angle bracket brace curly bracket parenthesis round bracket square bracket

Type Of (IsA)

punctuation punctuation symbol quantity set solid tangible artifact support

Manner Of

edit group hold

Related Terms

Canada) apostrophe brace bracket or parentheses (US colon comma curly brackets dash ellipsis exclamation mark fraction slash full stop guillemet hyphen interpunct interrobang period question mark quotation marks semicolon slash space square bracket or bracket stroke

Related Terms

actual bench bound carriage category character cheek content crooked diagram discount distinctly enclose existential exposure fixture ignore knee mark metaphysical multiple number ordnance parenthetic prediction range serif set aside shelf side support surround timber tournament trunnion wall

Synonym Network

angle bracket benchmark parentheses parenthesis square bracket

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.