bronze

1. 1.

   give the color and appearance of bronze to something

   “bronze baby shoes”

   Broaderdye
2. 2.

   get a tan, from wind or sun

   Synonymstan

   Broaderdiscolor

   Narrowersuntan

1. 1.

   of the color of bronze

   Synonymsbronzy

   Similarchromatic
2. 2.

   made from or consisting of bronze

   Similarmetallic

Other forms of bronze

plural

bronzes·

past tense

bronzed·

present participle

bronzing·

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 bronze

What does bronze mean?

bronze means "an alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bronze?

bronze has 1 syllable: bronze. In IPA it is /ˈbɹɑnz/.

What is another word for bronze?

Close synonyms include tan, bronzy. 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 bronze a common word?

bronze 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.