brood

Meanings

• noun

  A group of birds' offspring, hatched from the same clutch of eggs and reared together under the care of one or both parents.

  - "The eagle brood hatched last week is growing strong."
  - "The brood of chicks pecked at the food their mother provided."

• verb

  To think deeply or introspectively about something.

  - "After losing the election, he spent hours brooding over what went wrong."
  - "The detective brooded on the case, trying to piece together the clues."

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Pronunciation

1. /bɹuːd/
   
   
   
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Rhymes

Words rhyming with brood
mood , pood , food , good , mudd , budd

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Variants

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brood , broods , brooded , brooding , broodingly

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Forms

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The plural form of 'brood' is 'broods'. There are no other forms for this word.

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Etymology

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Old English 'brean' meaning to bring forth, breed. The meaning 'think deeply' comes from Middle English 'brooden' meaning to keep warm, which metaphorically came to mean to ponder.

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Trivia

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1. The term 'broodmare' refers to a female horse that is kept for breeding.

2. The Guinness World Record for the largest brood of chicks hatched from a single set of eggs is 322.

3. The term 'brood' comes from the Old English word 'brean', which also meant 'to bring forth' or 'to breed'.

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Related Concepts

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1. Clutch: A group of eggs laid by a bird or reptile, which are incubated together.

2. Nestling: A young bird that is being cared for by its parents in a nest.

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Culture

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In literature, the term 'brood' has been used metaphorically to describe the emotional burden or responsibility of raising children or nurturing something, such as in William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' or Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'The Brothers Karamazov'.

How to Memorize "brood"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a group of birds sitting on their eggs in a nest. Visualize the chicks hatching and the parents caring for them.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'brood' with the image of a mother bird and her chicks.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic by remembering the phrase 'Birds Brood Babies' to help remember the meaning of the word.

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