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Bream bream

Spelling: [brim, breem]

IPA: /brɪm, brim/

Bream is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in Bream (abemr).

Definitions for Bream

noun

1. any of various freshwater fishes of the genus Abramis, as A. brama, of Europe, with a compressed, deep body and silvery scales.
2. any of various related and similar fishes.
3. any of several porgies, as the sea bream, Archosargus rhomboidalis.
4. any of several freshwater sunfishes of the genus Lepomis.
5. Julian (Alexander) born 1933, English guitarist and lutenist.

verb (used with object)

1. to clean (a ship's bottom) by applying burning furze, reeds, etc., to soften the pitch and loosen adherent matter.

Origin of Bream

1350-1400; Middle English breme Anglo-French; Old French bresme, braisme Old Low Franconian *brahsima; compare Old High German brahsema, Dutch brasem

Examples for Bream

But stay, Captain bream, I have not nearly done with my scheming yet.

bream's bedroom, he knew, was the one just off the next landing.

We have in multiple requests,” bream answered meekly, “and when it comes in, we'll let you know.

Coming suddenly out of the night it affected bream painfully.

It was so with her when Captain bream was summoned so suddenly away from Yarmouth.

"He won't have forgotten you," said bream Mortimer, confidently.

And what a satisfactory thing it was to watch Captain bream at his meals!

You told me yourself that you had broken off my engagement to bream.

I am engaged to bream Mortimer, and I love him and nobody else in the world!

He clung to a hope that bream Mortimer at least would receive him fittingly.