Library / English Dictionary

BROOCH

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A decorative pin worn by women

Synonyms:

breastpin; broach; brooch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("brooch" is a kind of...):

pin (a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brooch"):

sunburst (a jeweled brooch with a pattern resembling the sun)

Derivation:

brooch (fasten with or as if with a brooch)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fasten with or as if with a brooch

Synonyms:

brooch; clasp

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "brooch" is one way to...):

fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

brooch (a decorative pin worn by women)

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 Context examples: 

This I quickly was: my best dress (the silver-grey one, purchased for Miss Temple's wedding, and never worn since) was soon put on; my hair was soon smoothed; my sole ornament, the pearl brooch, soon assumed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)