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- DictionaryBrood/bro͞od/
noun
- 1. a family of young animals, especially of a bird, produced at one hatching or birth: "a brood of chicks"
verb
- 1. think deeply about something that makes one unhappy: "he brooded over his need to find a wife"
- 2. (of a bird) sit on (eggs) to hatch them: "the male pheasant-tailed jacana takes over once the eggs are laid and broods them"
adjective
- 1. (of an animal) kept to be used for breeding: "a brood mare"
1. : the young of an animal or a family of young. especially : the young (as of a bird or insect) hatched or cared for at one time. a hen with her brood of chicks. 2. : a group having a common nature or origin. the entire brood of chronicle plays T. S. Eliot. 3. : the children of a family.
noun. a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young. a breed, species, group, or kind: The museum exhibited a brood of monumental sculptures. Synonyms: strain, stock, line. verb (used with object) to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird; incubate.
to think for a long time about things that make you sad, worried, or angry: I wish she wouldn't sit brooding in her room all day. Compare. sulk verb disapproving. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
to think for a long time about things that make you sad, worried, or angry: I wish she wouldn't sit brooding in her room all day. Compare. sulk verb disapproving. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
A brood is a group of young born at the same time — like a brood of chicks — but your parents might use the word for you and your siblings: "We're taking the whole brood to the movies tonight." Brood is also what a chicken does when she sits on her eggs to hatch them.
a family of young birds or animals, all born at the same time. brood. verb [ I ] uk / bruːd / us. to think for a long time about things that make you sad or angry: I wish he'd stop brooding about the past. (Definition of brood from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of brood. in Chinese (Traditional)
The main, lower part of a beehive in which the queen lives and the brood is reared; a brood box or brood chamber; cf. body box, n. brood-chamber , n. 1888– (a) A chamber for holding the eggs or brood of an animal, etc.; (b) a chamber folded off from the uterus and closed around the embryo in some species…
