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  1. noun A trademark or distinctive name identifying a product or a manufacturer.
  2. noun A product line so identified: a popular brand of soap.
  3. noun A distinctive category; a particular kind: a brand of comedy that I do not care for.

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, torch, from Old English; see gwher- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English brand, brond, from Anglo-Saxon brand, brond, a burning, a sword (= OFries. brand = Old Dutch brand, a burning, a sword, Dutch brand, a burning, fuel, = Middle Low German brant = Old High German Middle High German brant, German brand, a burning, a brand, a sword, = Icelandic brandr, a firebrand, a sword, = Swedish brand = Danish brand, a fire brand, fire), orig. a burning, from brinnan (preterit bran) = Gothic (Moesogothic) brinnan, etc., burn: see burn. Hence, a from Old High German, in the sense of ‘sword,’ Old French brand, brant, bran = Provencal bran = Italian brando, a sword (later Old French brandir, etc., brandish: see brandish), French brandon, a torch, brand: see brandon. See also brant, brent, brinded.
  2. from Middle English branden, brondyn = Dutch branden; from the noun.
 

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