bracket

1. 1.

   support with brackets

   “bracket bookshelves”

   Broaderhold
2. 2.

   place into brackets

   “Please bracket this remark”

   Synonymsbracket out

   Broaderedit
3. 3.

   classify or group

   Broadergroup

Other forms of bracket

plural

brackets·

past tense

bracketted·

present participle

bracketting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bracket

What does bracket mean?

bracket means "a category falling within certain defined limits". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bracket?

bracket has 2 syllables: brac-ket. The stress falls on "brac". In IPA it is /ˈbɹækɪt/.

What is another word for bracket?

Close synonyms include angle bracket, square bracket, wall bracket, bracket out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bracket a common word?

bracket is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.