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Brook definition

bro͝ok
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A small stream, usually not so large as a river.
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To put up with; tolerate.

We will brook no further argument.

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To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object).

I will not brook any disobedience. I will brook no refusal.

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To put up with; endure.

I will brook no interference.

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The definition of a brook is a small stream.

An example of a brook is a small flow of water along a wooded path.

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A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
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(Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
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(Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground.
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A surname​ for someone living by a brook.
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A surname​, a transliteration and normalization of Hebrew ברך (barúkh, “blessed”).
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A male given name transferred from the surname.
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A female given name of modern usage; more often spelled Brooke.
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Origin of brook

  • Middle English brouken from Old English brūcan to use, enjoy

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English brouken (“to use, enjoy”), from Old English brūcan (“to enjoy, brook, use, possess, partake of, spend”), from Proto-Germanic *brūkaną (“to enjoy, use”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrūg- (“to enjoy”). Cognate with Scots brook, brouk (“to use, enjoy”), West Frisian brûke (“to use”), Dutch bruiken (“to use”), German brauchen (“to need, require, use”), Latin fruor (“enjoy”). Related to fruit.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English, from Old English brōc (“brook, stream, torrent”), from Proto-Germanic *brōkaz (“stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *mrāǵ- (“silt, slime”). Cognate with Dutch broek (“marsh, swamp”), German Bruch (“marsh”), Ancient Greek βράγος (brágos, “shallows”) and Albanian bërrak (“swampy soil”).

    From Wiktionary

Brook Sentence Examples

  • On this matter Philip would brook no opposition.

  • The streams are well stocked with rainbow and brook trout.

  • After that other people brought water from a brook and sprinkled the earth.

  • It was a picture of a mill, near a beautiful brook.

  • When a solemn embassy of rebuke was sent to Zurich from a diet held at Lucerne, on the 26th of January 1524, the city replied that in matters relating to the Word of God and the salvation of souls she would brook no interference.

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