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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

brand / brand/ • n. 1. a type of product manufactured by a particular company under a particular name: a new brand of detergent. ∎ a brand name: the company will market computer software under its own brand. ∎ a particular type or kind of something: the Finnish brand of democratic socialism. 2. an identifying mark burned on livestock or (esp. formerly) criminals or slaves with a branding iron. ∎ fig. a habit, trait, or quality that causes someone public shame or disgrace: the brand of Paula's alcoholism. 3. a piece of burning or smoldering wood: he took two burning brands from the fire. • v. [tr.] 1. mark (an animal, formerly a criminal or slave) with a branding iron. ∎ mark indelibly: an ointment that branded her with unsightly violet-colored splotches. ∎ describe (someone or something) as something bad or shameful: the media was intent on branding us as communists [tr.] she was branded a liar. 2. assign a brand name to: [as adj.] (branded) branded goods at low prices. ∎ [as n.] (branding) the promotion of a particular product or company by means of advertising and distinctive design. DERIVATIVES: brand·er n.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

brand1 piece of burning wood OE.; mark made with a hot iron; stigma XVI; trade-mark XIX. OE. brand = OHG. brant (G. brand), ON. brandr :- Gmc. *brandaz, f. *bran- *bren- BURN2.
Hence brand vb. XIV.

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brand2 (poet.) sword. OE. brand = MHG. brant, ON. brandr; perh. a use of prec.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

brand •and, band, bland, brand, expand, firsthand, gland, grand, hand, land, manned, misunderstand, offhand, rand, righthand, Samarkand, sand, stand, strand, thirdhand, underhand, undermanned, understand, unplanned, untanned, withstand •graduand • hatband • armband •headband • neckband • sweatband •waistband • waveband • wristband •broadband • showband • noseband •saraband • backhand • chargehand •farmhand • deckhand • stagehand •freehand • millhand • behindhand •longhand •beforehand, forehand •shorthand • gangland • Lapland •flatland • no-man's-land • Saarland •farmland • grassland • marshland •fenland • wetland • Sudetenland •wasteland • dreamland • peatland •Matabeleland • Ngamiland •fairyland • Dixieland • Swaziland •Thailand • Rhineland • swampland •washland • homeland • Heligoland •Basutoland •clubland, scrubland •timberland • borderland •wonderland • Nagaland • Helgoland •Bechuanaland, Gondwanaland •Mashonaland • Damaraland •Nyasaland • platteland • hinterland •fatherland • motherland •Namaqualand • Öland • allemande •confirmand • ordinand • Ferdinand •Talleyrand • firebrand • Krugerrand •honorand • Witwatersrand •greensand • quicksand • analysand •Streisand • ampersand •bandstand, grandstand, handstand •hatstand • kickstand • inkstand •washstand • hallstand • news-stand

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