brow – English noun declension

English noun forms of brow

Noun: brow
Singularbrow
Pluralbrows

Sample Sentences

  • ’Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair, / Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream / That can entame my spirits to your worship. [c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:]
  • And his arch’d brow, pulled o’er his eyes, / With solemn proof proclaims him wise. [c. 1763, Charles Churchill, The Ghost:]
  • Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war,
  • And thus hath so bestirr’d thee in thy sleep,
  • That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow
  • Like bubbles in a late-disturb’d stream,[…] [c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:]
  • Mr. Banks’ panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow. [1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:]
  • Take it away; I'm frightened! / But she, with placid brow, / Cries: "This is our Kitty-witty! / Why don't you love her now?" [1919, Katherine Mansfield, “Friendship”, in J. Middleton Murry, editor, The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield, published 1940:]
  • the brow of a precipice

Etymology

1. From Middle English browe, from Old English brū, from Proto-West Germanic *brāwu, from Proto-Germanic *brūwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs (“brow”).
2. Cognate with Scots broo (“brow”), Dutch brauw (“brow”), German Braue (“eyebrow”), Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish bryn (“brow”), Faroese, Icelandic brún (“brow”). See also Middle Irish brúad, Tocharian B pärwāne (“eyebrows”), Lithuanian bruvi̇̀s, Serbo-Croatian obrva (“eyebrow”), Russian бровь (brovʹ, “brow”), Ancient Greek ὀφρύς (ophrús, “eyebrow”), Sanskrit भ्रू (bhrū, “eyebrow”)), Persian ابرو (abru, “eyebrow”), Khowar بروُ (bruú, “eyebrow”). See: Middle English Nouns 'browe', Dutch Nouns 'brauw', German Nouns 'Braue', Swedish Nouns 'bryn', Icelandic Nouns 'brún', Russian Nouns 'бровь', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ὀφρύς'.

Verbs referencing "brow"

German Nouns Braue, Russian Nouns бровь, Ancient Greek Nouns ὀφρύς, Dutch Nouns brauw.