Noun: bronze
| Singular | bronze |
| Plural | bronzes |
Sample Sentences
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How little gives thee joy or pain; A print, a bronze, a flower, a root. [1720, Matthew Prior, Poems on Several Occasions, page 339:]
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Speaking of round sunglasses, these lightweight polarized ones and come in two shades of tortoiseshell as well as black and bronze. [2023 June 26, Lauren Caruso and Jillian Tracy, “The 22 best sunglasses for summer, according to style experts”, in CNN, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2025:]
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"This is very good," he continued, addressing himself to the bronze again. "How ever did he do it?"
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"With his hands."
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"Naturally. But, I mean, how did he study his model?" [1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:]
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On the mantelshelf either side of the clock stood two lacquered bronzes of horse and tamer. [1998, Derek Beaven, chapter 9, in Acts of Mutiny, London: Fourth Estate, →ISBN, part 1 (Motion), page 34:]
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She wanted to win the tournament, but had to settle for the bronze after being beaten in the semi-finals.
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Embrown'd with native bronze, lo! Henley stands. [1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like bronze
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French bronze (1511); from Italian bronzo (13th c.), of uncertain origin (q.v.). First use appears c. 1721 in the writings of Matthew Prior (for which, see citation below). See: French Nouns '
bronze', Italian Nouns '
bronzo'.