n.
- a type of product manufactured by a company under a particular name.
▸a brand name.
▸a particular type of something:
the Finnish brand of socialism.
- an identifying mark burned on livestock with a branding iron.
- a piece of burning or smouldering wood.
- literary a sword.
v.
- mark with a branding iron.
- mark out as having a particular shameful quality:
she was branded a liar.
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[usu. as adj. branded]
assign a brand name to.
Derivative
Etymology
OE brand ‘burning’, of Gmc origin; rel. to burn1.