breeze
English
/bɹiːz/
noun
Definitions
- A light, gentle wind.
- (figurative) Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
- (cricket) Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
- Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. .
- An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
- A brief workout for a racehorse.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English brees (wind).
Origin
Middle English
brees
Gloss
wind
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
風
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- breezefly English
- breezeless English
- breezelessness English
- breezen English
- breezeway English
- breezily English
- breeziness English
- breezy English
- fly English
- sea English
- seabreeze English
- way English
- Brise German
- brezza Italian
- parabrezza Italian
- ribrezzo Italian
- bries Dutch, Flemish
- brise French
- pare-brise French
- бриз Russian
- brisa Spanish, Castilian
- parabrisas Spanish, Castilian
- brisa Portuguese
- bryza Polish
- brees Middle English
- brisa Catalan, Valencian
- parabrisa Catalan, Valencian
- brisa Galician
- parabrisas Galician
- bries Afrikaans
- brîsi Norman
- brise Middle French
- briza Old Spanish
- labriz Mauritian Creole
- labriz Seychellois Creole