Bronzename

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  A surname.

Bronzenoun

• 1

  A breed of domestic turkey whose plumage has an iridescent bronze-like sheen.

bronzenoun/bɹɒnz/

• 1

  A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.

  • How little gives thee joy or pain; A print, a bronze, a flower, a root.
• 2

  A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.

  • Speaking of round sunglasses, these lightweight polarized ones and come in two shades of tortoiseshell as well as black and bronze.
• 3

  A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.

  • "This is very good," he continued, addressing himself to the bronze again. "How ever did he do it?" "With his hands." "Naturally. But, I mean, how did he study his model?"
  • On the mantelshelf either side of the clock stood two lacquered bronzes of horse and tamer.
• 4

  A bronze medal; third place.

  • She wanted to win the tournament, but had to settle for the bronze after being beaten in the semi-finals.
• 5

  Boldness; impudence.

  • Embrown'd with native bronze, lo! Henley stands.

bronzeadj/bɹɒnz/

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  Made of bronze metal.

  • The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
• 2

  Having a reddish-brown colour.

• 3

  Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.

  • That girl was dynamite. Dark hair with killer blue eyes, bronze skin, and an exquisite full-figured body.

bronzeverb/bɹɒnz/

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  To plate with bronze.

  • My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.
• 2

  To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.

  • The sun was so low that its level rays shot through the tunnels of the forest and bronzed its ceiling of woven leaves when Bess returned to the clearing.
  • North is the bay of Acre, lovely in shape, and, far, far beyond, the cloudy vision of Hermon, its huge landscape now only attainable with a police pass—beautifully solitary except for good-looking young men of the police patrols, all fit and bronzed.
• 3

  To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.

  • His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.
• 4

  To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.

  • the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead
• 5

  To finish in third place; to win a bronze medal.

  • Louganis' runner-up count was 822.09, and Boggs bronzed at 783.78.
  • Her speedskating teammate, Leah Poulos, captured a 1000m silver in 1976, behind Tatiana Averina of the Soviet Union, who also took the gold in the 3000m and bronzed in the 500m and the 1500m.