bronze

bronze is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 19 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.
2. adjective. A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.
3. adjective. A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.
4. adjective. Boldness; impudence

   "brass."

5. noun. To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.
6. noun. To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
7. noun. a sculpture made of bronze
8. noun. an alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin
9. verb. get a tan, from wind or sun

   Synonyms: tan

10. verb. give the color and appearance of bronze to something

    "bronze baby shoes"

11. adjective. of the color of bronze

    Synonyms: bronzy

12. adjective. made from or consisting of bronze

Synonyms

tan, bronzy

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bronze:

bonzer

Common word forms

bronzed, bronzer, bronzes, bronzing

Words from these letters

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