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n | brook |

As a letter n

is the letter n with a tilde.

As a proper noun brook is

for someone living by a brook .

n

Translingual

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Letter

  • The fourteenth letter of the .
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  • Synonyms

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    See also

    (Latn-script) * Preceded by apostrophe: 'n * Hiragana]]: [[? * (no) {{Letter , page=N , NATO=November , Morse=–· , Character=N , Braille=? }} Image:Latin N.png, Capital and lowercase versions of N , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter N.png, Uppercase and lowercase N in Fraktur

    Symbol

    (head)
  • alveolar nasal.
  • Sample size.
  • neutron
  • An arbitrary natural number.
  • brook

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
  • To earn; deserve.
  • (label) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object ).
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
  • , chapter=6, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
  • * 2005 , Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World , Harper:
  • Nevertheless, Garcilaso does claim that the Spaniards ‘who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians’.
    Derived terms
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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
  • *Bible, (w) viii. 7
  • *:The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
  • *
  • *:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
  • A water meadow.
  • Low, marshy ground.
  • Synonyms
    * beck * burn * coulee * creek * stream