Noun: brook
| Singular | brook |
| Plural | brooks |
Sample Sentences
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empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters [c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:]
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The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 8:7:]
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But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…]. [1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:]
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"Most of them don't wash. Those who do usually plunge their head into some brook or rill, if there happens to be one about." [1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 53:]
Nouns inflected like brook
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 Middle English brook, from Old English brōc (“brook; stream; torrent”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōk (“stream”). See: Middle English Nouns '
brook', Old English Nouns '
brōc'.
Verbs referencing "brook"
English Nouns
fruit.