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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: brä, IPA^(key): /b???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Shortened from brassiere.

Noun

bra (plural bras)

1. Clipping of brassiere. [from 1920s]

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From bracket, referring to the notation introduced in 1939 by Paul Dirac.

Noun

bra (plural bras)

1. (physics) One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the other being the ket.

Antonyms

• ket

Related terms

• bra-ket notation

Etymology 3

Representing a different pronunciation of bro (“brother”).

Noun

bra (plural bras)

1. (slang) Alternative form of bro; friend, mate

2. (slang) female equivalent of bro

Further reading

• brassiere on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ABR, ARB, Arb., Bar, Bar., RBA, Rab, abr., arb, bar, bar-

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from English bra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br??/

Noun

bra (plural bra's)

1. bra, brassiere
2. (Cape Afrikaans) bro, brah, bruh

Cebuano

Etymology

From English bra, shortened from brassiere, from French brassière.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bra

Noun

bra

1. a bra; a brassiere

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bra.

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bra

1. arrow

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bras (“arm”)

Noun

bra

1. arm

Khotanese

Adjective

bra

1. dear

Norman

Alternative forms

• brâs (continental Normandy)
• bras (Jersey, Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French bras, from Vulgar Latin *bracium, from Classical Latin bracchium, from Ancient Greek ??????? (brakhí?n).

Noun

bra m (plural bras)

1. (Sark, anatomy) arm

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French brave.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???/

Adjective

bra (indeclinable, comparative bedre, indefinite superlative best, definite superlative beste)

1. good, fine

Derived terms

• kjempebra

Adverb

bra

1. well

See also

• god
• vel

References

• “bra” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French brave.

Adjective

bra (indeclinable, comparative betre, indefinite superlative best, definite superlative beste)

1. good, fine

Derived terms

• kjempebra

See also

• god
• vel

References

• “bra” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Since at least 1621, from braf (“good, brave”); from Low German brav; from French brave, borrowed from Italian bravo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br??/, /br??/

Adjective

bra (comparative bättre, superlative bäst)

1. good

Declension

Usage notes

In informal (often jocular or childish) contexts, bäst may be inflected further and given the comparative bästare (bester) and the superlative bästast, bästaste (bestest); these forms are also nonstandard.

Adverb

bra (comparative bättre, superlative bäst)

1. well

See also

• väl
• god

Anagrams

• -bar, bar

Yola

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

bra

1. brave

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• bira
• b?ra

Etymology

Compare Persian ?????? (barâdar).

Noun

bra

1. brother

English

Alternative forms

• pragmatick (archaic)
• pragmatique (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French pragmatique, from Late Latin pragmaticus (“relating to civil affair; in Latin, as a noun, a person versed in the law who furnished arguments and points to advocates and orators, a kind of attorney”), from Ancient Greek ??????????? (pragmatikós, “active, versed in affairs”), from ?????? (prâgma, “a thing done, a fact”), in plural ???????? (prágmata, “affairs, state affairs, public business, etc.”), from ?????? (práss?, “to do”) (whence English practical).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?æ??mæt?k/

Adjective

pragmatic (comparative more pragmatic, superlative most pragmatic)

1. Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.

   The sturdy furniture in the student lounge was pragmatic, but unattractive.

   • Nor indeed are these restrictions pragmatic in nature: i.e. the ill-formedness of the heed-sentences in (60) is entirely different in kind from the oddity of sentences like:
     (61) !That man will eat any car which thinks he?s stupid
     which is purely pragmatic (i.e. lies in the fact that (61) describes the kind of bizarre situation which just doesn?t happen in the world we are familiar with, where cars don?t think, and people don?t eat cars).

2. Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.
3. Interfering in the affairs of others; officious; meddlesome.

Synonyms

• (practical): down-to-earth, functional, practical, utilitarian, realistic

Antonyms

• idealistic

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

pragmatic (plural pragmatics)

1. A man of business.
2. A busybody.
3. A public decree.

Further reading

• pragmatic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pragmatic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• "pragmatic" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 240.

Romanian

Etymology

From French pragmatique.

Adjective

pragmatic m or n (feminine singular pragmatic?, masculine plural pragmatici, feminine and neuter plural pragmatice)

1. pragmatic

Declension