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noun
1.
a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young.
2.
a breed, species, group, or kind: The museum exhibited a brood of monumental sculptures.
verb (used with object)
3.
to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird; incubate.
4.
(of a bird) to warm, protect, or cover (young) with the wings or body.
5.
to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder: He brooded the problem.
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verb (used without object)
6.
to sit upon eggs to be hatched, as a bird.
7.
to dwell on a subject or to meditate with morbid persistence (usually followed by over or on).
adjective
Verb phrase8.
kept for breeding: a brood hen.
9.
brood above/over, to cover, loom, or seem to fill the atmosphere or scene: The haunted house on the hill brooded above the village.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English brōd; cognate with Dutch broed, German Brut. See breed
before 1000; Middle English; Old English brōd; cognate with Dutch broed, German Brut. See breed
Related forms
brood·less, adjective
un·brood·ed, adjective
Synonyms
1. Brood, litter refer to young creatures. Brood is especially applied to the young of fowls and birds hatched from eggs at one time and raised under their mother's care: a brood of young turkeys. Litter is applied to a group of young animals brought forth at a birth: a litter of kittens or pups. 2. line, stock, strain.
1. Brood, litter refer to young creatures. Brood is especially applied to the young of fowls and birds hatched from eggs at one time and raised under their mother's care: a brood of young turkeys. Litter is applied to a group of young animals brought forth at a birth: a litter of kittens or pups. 2. line, stock, strain.
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- This heroine and her brood prove once again that they can weather any storm.
- Gathering seeds for the hungry brood.
- Don't take the A train if you brood easily.
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Word Origin & History
brood
O.E. brod "brood, fetus, hatchling," from P.Gmc. *brod (cf. M.Du. broet, O.H.G. bruot, Ger. Brut "brood"), lit. "that which is hatched by heat," from *bro- "to warm, heat," from PIE *bhre- "burn, heat, incubate," from base *bhreue- "to boil, bubble, effervesce, burn" (see
EXPAND brew). The verbal figurative meaning ("to incubate in the mind") is first recorded 1570s, from notion of "nursing" one's anger, resentment, etc. Related: Brooded.
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brood (br&oomacr;d)
n.
See litter.
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