Bright Definition
An artist's brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.
(neologism) A person with a naturalistic worldview with no supernatural or mystical elements.
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Origin of Bright
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Old English bryht, metathesis of beorht, from Proto-Germanic *berhtaz (compare Dutch brecht, Norwegian bjart), from pre-Celtic/Germanic *bʰerHgto (compare Welsh berth (“beautiful”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰereg- (“to gleam, whiten”) (compare Middle Irish brafad (“blink of an eye”), Lithuanian brekšta (“to dawn”), Russian брезг (brezg, “dawn, daybreak”), Albanian bardhë (“white”), Persian برازیدن (barâzîdan), Sanskrit भ्राजते (bhrájate)).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English beorht bherəg- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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