Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Scots A hillside; a slope.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The side of a hill or other rising ground; an acclivity; a stretch of sloping ground; a slope.
- n. An inclined roadway in a mine: commonly used in compounds: as, cuddy-brae.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Scot. A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a slope or hillside
Etymologies
- From Old Norse brá. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English bra, from Old Norse brā, eyebrow (unattested sense), eyelash. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“‘That light ye see at the top of the brae is his camp.’”
“Don't you see yon bonny, bonny road that lies across the ferny brae, that is the road to fair Elfland, where you and I this night rnaun gae ....”
“That light ye see at the top of the brae is his camp.”
“In the house on the brae was a great kettle, called the boiler, that was said to be fifty years old in the days of Hendry's grandfather, of whom nothing more is known.”
“The brae is a little trying, sir," said I. "Speaking as a physician, I should say that you would do well to rest here before you go further.”
“There is no nook nor cranny, no bank nor brae, which is not, in the time of roses, ablaze with their exuberant loveliness.”
“The word "brae" means slope or declivity; the braes of Doune stretch away east and north from the village.”
“The brae is a little trying, sir," said I. Speaking as a physician, I should say that you would do well to rest here before you go further. ”
“The brae is a little trying, sir," said I. "Speaking as a physician,”
“Like the side of a brae where the torrent had been.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brae’.
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2057 more...
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Of Curious Provenance
Words with interesting etymologies.
boustrophedon, octothorpe, neurogami, shampoo, rubric, vernacular, ovolo, mojo, sycophant, wiki, obstreperous, geezer and 8 more...
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Eocene (Eosin) (Eoscene) (Eoseen) Eng...
Dawn Words in English
swefnum, swefna, secgan, goste, wealhstod, wald-swathu, hearpan, hwaet, leothcraeft, beorhtost, wyrd, dustsceawung and 133 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 889 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Definitions
Esoteric words for me
pleroma, syzygy, antanaclasis, Therapeutae, Essenes, arcane, germane, apposite, conurbation, sinecure, antiphonal, coenobite and 159 more...
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Geology Words
The descriptive science described.
earth, lithosphere, mineral, convection, heat flow, ore, deep time, fossil, formation, rock, tectonics, extinction and 284 more...
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Rogue's Words for bonnie lads n lassies
tinchel, glen, sassenach, guddle, brae, bonnie, eejit, deerhound, hoonds, lassie, laddie, heiland and 188 more...
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Scottish Stuff
Words related to the land of my birth.
kilt, brae, loch, sporran, broth, bagpipes, skean dhu, glengarry bonnet, bahoochy, glaswegian, hogmanay, poke and 9 more...
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tuatara's Words
wonky, purple prose, arabesque, kismet, tuatara, flotilla, coprolite, succor, thanatopsis, wedgie, hairball, brae and 1 more...
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.terra
fen, hollow, vale, realm, glade, knoll, princedom, thule, swale, bog, foss, brae and 22 more...
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The Hills Are Alive
Hill words. Also see over hill.
hill, hillock, tor, golgotha, butte, morro, brae, formicary, drumlin, sowback, barrow, foothill and 41 more...
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Bionomenclature
phloem, lithops, ericaceous, albido, tarn, bosque, mirage, skerry, weir, kingfisher, effluvia, potherb and 48 more...
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Good Olde English
yean, nave, ilk, daw, lode, brae, scurf, yond, quench, throng, eftsoons, fang and 26 more...
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Odd Words
Weird words you'd never think of using.
minimus, quimp, grawlix, nittles, jarns, chanking, chantepleure, dibble, eugeria, groak, libberwort, pilgarlic and 8 more...
Tweets
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fbharjo brae brow of a hill or eye Jan 16, 2007