bronze
IPA: brˈɑnz
noun
- (uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.
- (countable and uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
- (countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
- A bronze medal.
- Boldness; impudence.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To plate with bronze.
- (transitive) To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
- (intransitive, of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
- (transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
adjective
- Made of bronze metal.
- Having a reddish-brown colour.
- (of the skin) Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.
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Examples of "bronze" in Sentences
- The bronze came in the heavyweight class.
- He won the bronze medal at the competition.
- The trophy was a bronze Figure of the clover.
- The discovery of alloys heralded the Bronze Age.
- The bronze have the Imperial bust on the obverse.
- The actual award is a bronze medal and honorarium.
- The custom is abandoned at the end of the Bronze Age.
- The metallurgy of the bronze age was highly advanced.
- Contemporaneous bronze reductions of the monument exist.
- The development of shipbuilding facilitated the spread of bronze.
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