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Definition of Brook
1. Noun. A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river). "The creek dried up every summer"
Specialized synonyms: Bull Run, Aegospotami, Aegospotamos
Specialized synonyms: Brooklet
Generic synonyms: Stream, Watercourse
2. Verb. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant. "Sam cannot brook Sue "; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
Specialized synonyms: Accept, Live With, Swallow, Hold Still For, Stand For, Bear Up, Take Lying Down, Take A Joke, Sit Out, Pay
Generic synonyms: Allow, Countenance, Let, Permit
Related verbs: Suffer
Derivative terms: Abidance, Bearable, Endurance, Sufferance, Tolerance, Tolerant, Tolerant, Toleration
Definition of Brook
1. n. A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.
2. v. t. To use; to enjoy.
Definition of Brook
1. Proper noun. (surname from=Middle English dot=) for someone living by a brook. ¹
2. Proper noun. (surnames male given name) transferred from the surname. ¹
3. Proper noun. (given name female from=surnames) of modern usage; more often spelled Brooke. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive obsolete except in Scots) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve. ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (''usually used in the negative''). ¹
7. Noun. a body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream. ¹
8. Noun. (Sussex Kent) a water meadow. ¹
9. Noun. (context: Sussex Kent in the plural) low, marshy ground. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brook
1. to tolerate [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: tolerate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brook
Literary usage of Brook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"TC brook, BENJAMIN (1776-1848), nonconformist divine and historian, was born in
1776 at Nether Thong, near Huddersfield. As a youth he was admitted to ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Herbert Dickinson, Joseph Quincy Adams, Joaquin Miller, Robert B. Honeyman (1883)
"DOWN from yon distant mountain height brook, from what mountain dost thou come,
... I go to the river there below Where in bunches the violets grow, brook, ..."
3. Collections by RI Historical Society (1908)
"... Being Chosen Constable for the Easterly side of Beaver brook it is voted ...
of Beaver brook voted for Constable on the Westerly side of Beaver brook ..."
4. A survey of London by John Stow (1842)
"Now from the north to the south this city was of old time divided, not by a large
highway or street, as from east to west, but by a fair brook of sweet ..."
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