From French bronze (1511), from Italian bronzo (13th cent.

• (British) IPA: /bɹɒnz/
• (America) IPA: /bɹɑnz/

bronze

1. (uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.

   Coordinate term: brass

2. (countable and uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.

    

3. (countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
4. A bronze medal.

   She wanted to win the tournament, but had to settle for the bronze after being beaten in the semi-finals.

5. Boldness; impudence.

   Synonyms: brass#Etymology_1

   • 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC ↗:

     Embrown'd with native bronze, lo! Henley stands.

• French: bronze, airain
• German: Bronze
• Italian: bronzo
• Portuguese: bronze
• Russian: бро́нза
• Spanish: bronce

• French: bronze
• German: Bronze
• Italian: bronzo
• Portuguese: bronze
• Russian: бро́нзовый
• Spanish: bronce, broncíneo, broncínea

bronze

1. Made of bronze metal.

   Synonyms: bronzen

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC ↗:

     The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

2. Having a reddish-brown colour.
3. (of the skin) Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.

• German: bronzen
• Italian: bronzeo
• Portuguese: brônzeo
• Russian: бро́нзовый
• Spanish: éneo, broncíneo, brónceo (historic)

• German: bronzen
• Italian: bronzeo
• Portuguese: bronze, bronzeado, brônzeo
• Spanish: bronceado, broncíneo, brónceo (historic)

• French: hâlé, bronzé, tanné (par le soleil)
• Italian: abbronzato
• Portuguese: bronzeado
• Spanish: tostado, bronceado

bronze (bronzes, present participle bronzing; simple past and past participle bronzed)

1. (transitive) To plate with bronze.

   My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.

2. (transitive) To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
   • 1925, DuBose Heyward, Porgy‎, London: Jonathan Cape, Part IV, p. 137:

     The sun was so low that its level rays shot through the tunnels of the forest and bronzed its ceiling of woven leaves when Bess returned to the clearing.

3. (intransitive, of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
4. (transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
   • 1815 February 23, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC ↗:

     the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead

• Spanish: pavonar, empavonar

• Spanish: broncear

1. Surname.