Definitions for Brass

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Brass brass

Spelling: [bras, brahs]

IPA: /bræs, brɑs/

Brass is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in Brass (abrss).

Definitions for Brass

noun

1. any of various metal alloys consisting mainly of copper and zinc.
2. a utensil, ornament, or other article made of such an alloy.
3. Music. brass instrument. brass instruments collectively in a band or orchestra.
4. metallic yellow; lemon, amber, or reddish yellow.
5. Informal. high-ranking military officers. any very important officials.
6. Informal. excessive self-assurance; impudence; effrontery.
7. Machinery. a replaceable semicylindrical shell, usually of bronze, used with another such to line a bearing; a half bushing.
8. British. a memorial tablet or plaque, often incised with an effigy, coat of arms, or the like.
9. Furniture. any piece of ornamental or functional hardware, as a drawer pull, made of brass.
10. British Slang. money.

adjective

1. of, made of, or pertaining to brass.
2. composed for or using musical instruments made of brass.
3. having the color brass.

Origin of Brass

before 1000; 1945-50 for def 5; Middle English bras, Old English bræs; cognate with Old Frisian bres copper, Middle Low German bras metal

Examples for Brass

The visitor's advent was announced again by the brass knocker on the front door.

The whole town was in a drunken reverie, singing and dancing to brass bands with the tribal beat of the Basques.

At BeyondVape there is a board where people can record their last tobacco cigarette in brass, a way of committing to vaping.

Ted tugged at the brass buttons of her red, wool-crepe dress.

Kirkwood smiled grimly, with a face of brass, impenetrable, inflexible.

So maybe we should take a lesson from women with brass ovaries: comedy and feminism are longstanding bedfellows.

Will you give us each a bracelet of brass as well as the rifles?

I will go further, and admit that the brass plates may not all be frauds.

The Riveters boast capos (chant leaders), tifos (giant club-support banners), drums, brass, and flags.

To effect a change of ownership with the candid concomitance of a brass band.