brand – English noun declension

English noun forms of brand

Noun: brand
Singularbrand
Pluralbrands

Sample Sentences

  • “Well, in the first place, every cattleman has to have a brand to identify his stock. Without it no cattleman, nor half a hundred cowboys, if he had so many, could ever recognize all the cattle in a big herd. […]” [1914 January, Zane Grey, The Light of Western Stars: A Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 59:]
  • The indelible word "homosexual," like a brand that grew deeper and redder every day, became increasingly hard to conceal and to ignore. [1982 December 4, Mitzel, “A Sissy's Revenge”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 9:]
  • The Amtrak brand revitalization approach represents one of the most ambitious, comprehensive, and systematic experiential marketing approaches I have ever seen. [1999, Bernd Schmitt, Experiential marketing, page 39:]
  • In this way, every Citibanker becomes a brand manager and an ambassador of the Citibank brand. ... Indeed, the Citibank brand will "never sleep" [2000, Duane E. Knapp, The Brandmindset, page 67:]
  • Mr. Lundgren claimed that Federated had conducted a focus group and the analysis showed that most people were either indifferent to the name change or preferred the Macy's brand. [2010, Gayle Soucek, Marshall Field's: The Store That Helped Build Chicago, page 136:]
  • Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete. [2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:]
  • Some brands of breakfast cereal contain a lot of sugar.
  • I didn’t appreciate his particular brand of flattery.
  • New Orleans brand sausage; Danish brand ham
  • [O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam. [2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:]
  • The Obama brand had taken a hit two months earlier, when he campaigned for Creigh Deeds in Virginia and Jon Corzine in New Jersey, only to see them both lose. [2011, Tom Bevan, Carl M. Cannon, Election 2012: The Battle Begins, Crown, →ISBN:]
  • Her brand is edgy, cosmopolitan, and out-of-the-box, so blogging is the perfect, ever-changing match for her. [2012, Start Your Own Personal Concierge Service, Entrepreneur Press, →ISBN, page 104:]
  • He unplugged my umbilical cord to take a leisurely swig, smirking, watching me turn blue before giving it back. My cardiologist told me that was impossible, but I'm still convinced. That's very on-brand for [my twin] Jamie. [2019, Sally Thorne, 99 Percent Mine: A Novel, HarperCollins, →ISBN:]
  • “We made fun of [Jacob Rees-Mogg] in the paper” — that would be Cherwell, Oxford’s student-run weekly, where Kuper was a reporter — “all the while not realizing that we were helping to build his brand.” [2022 May 14, David Segal, quoting Simon Kuper, “An Outsider Takes an Inside Look at the Oxford ‘Chums’ Who Run the U.K.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
  • Goe to prepare the maryages what neede the torchis light? be holde the towres of troy do shyne with brandes that blase full bright. [1559, Jasper Heywood, transl., Troas:]
  • Is yet againe thy brest enflamde, / with brande of venus might [1559, Jasper Heywood, transl., Troas:]
  • to burn something to brands and ashes
  • The fearful brands and bleezes of het fire. [1513, Gavin Douglas, The Eneados:]
  • 1859-1890, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England to the Revolutionary War
  • Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof.
  • About three o'clock, we came to a recent camping place of the company of rangers: the brands of one of their fires were still smoking; so that, according to the opinion of Beatte, they could not have passed on above a day previously. [1835, [Washington Irving], chapter VI, in A Tour on the Prairies (The Crayon Miscellany; no. 1), Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, page 47:]
  • Or when amid the Grecians shippes, / he threw the brandes of fyre. [1559, Jasper Heywood, transl., Troas:]
  • Paradise, so late their happy seat, / Waved over by that flaming brand. [1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • The shattering trumpet shrilleth high, / The hard brands shiver on the steel, / The splintered spear-shafts crack and fly, / The horse and rider reel: […] [1834 September (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “Sir Galahad”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 174:]
  • Then Childe Rowland out with his good brand, that never struck in vain, and off went the cow-herd’s head. [1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Childe Rowland”, in English Fairy Tales, page 120:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English brand, from Old English brand (“fire; flame; burning; torch; sword”), from Proto-West Germanic *brand, from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“flame; flaming; fire-brand; torch; sword”), derived from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil; brew”).
2. Cognate with Scots brand, West Frisian brân (“fire”), Dutch brand, German Brand, Danish brand, Swedish brand (“blaze, fire”), Icelandic brandur, French brand (< Germanic). More distantly cognate with Proto-Slavic *gorěti (“to burn”). See: Middle English Nouns 'brand', Old English Nouns 'brand', Dutch Nouns 'brand', German Nouns 'Brand', Danish Nouns 'brand', Swedish Nouns 'brand', Icelandic Nouns 'brandur', French Nouns 'brand'.

Verbs referencing "brand"

Danish Nouns brand, Romanian Nouns brand, German Nouns Brand, Irish Nouns branda, Finnish Nouns brändi, Russian Nouns бренд, Ukrainian Nouns бренд, Italian Nouns prando.