broodとは

発音

• enPR: bro͞od, IPA^(key): /bɹuːd/
• 異形同音異義語: brewed
• 韻: -uːd

名詞

brood (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 broods)

1. The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
   • Bible, Luke xiii. 34

     As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.

2. (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
3. (countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
4. (countable, uncountable) The children in one family.
   • 1610-11, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III, scene II:

     Ay, lord, she will become thy bed, I warrant,

     And bring thee forth brave brood.

5. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
   • 1598, George Chapman translation of Homer's Iliad, Book 2:

     […] flocks of the airy brood,

     Cranes, geese or long-neck'd swans, here, there, proud of their pinions fly […]

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 19:

     Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,

     And make the earth devour her own sweet brood […]

6. (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

派生語

参考

• flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin

動詞

brood (三人称単数 現在形 broods, 現在分詞 brooding, 過去形および過去分詞形 brooded)

1. (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.

   In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.

2. (transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.

   Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.

3. (intransitive) To dwell upon moodily and at length (with adpositions generally being either about または over)

   He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.

   • Nathaniel Hawthorne

     Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.

   • Tennyson

     when with downcast eyes we muse and brood

   • 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter IX, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 884653065; republished New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953, →ISBN:

     And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.

4. (intransitive) To be bred.

Further reading

• Brood (honey bee) on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• Dobro, boord, dobro, droob