noun

1. a substance made from clay molded into oblong blocks and fired in a kiln or baked in the sun, used in building, paving, etc.
2. one of these blocks, of any of various standard sizes
3. bricks collectively
4. anything shaped like a brick
5. Informal a fine person

Etymology: ME brike < MDu < breken, break (in sense “piece of baked clay”) & MFr brique < OFr, of same orig.

adjective

1. built or paved with brick
2. like brick brick red

transitive verb

Etymology: orig. a place where bricks were made