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Definitions for Brooder

[1] a device or structure for the rearing of young chickens or other birds.
[2] a person or animal that broods.
[3] a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young.
[4] a breed, species, group, or kind: The museum exhibited a brood of monumental sculptures.
[5] to sit upon (eggs) to hatch, as a bird; incubate.
[6] (of a bird) to warm, protect, or cover (young) with the wings or body.
[7] to think or worry persistently or moodily about; ponder: He brooded the problem.
[8] to sit upon eggs to be hatched, as a bird.
[9] to dwell on a subject or to meditate with morbid persistence (usually followed by over or on ).
[10] kept for breeding: a brood hen.
[11] brood above /over , to cover, loom, or seem to fill the atmosphere or scene: The haunted house on the hill brooded above the village.
[12] an enclosure or other structure, usually heated, used for rearing young chickens or other fowl
[13] a person or thing that broods
[14] a number of young animals, esp birds, produced at one hatching
[15] all the offspring in one family: often used jokingly or contemptuously
[16] a group of a particular kind; breed
[17] (as modifier) kept for breeding a brood mare
[18] (of a bird) to sit on or hatch (eggs) (tr) to cover (young birds) protectively with the wings
[19] (when intr , often foll by on, over or upon ) to ponder morbidly or persistently

Words related to Brooder

solitary, egotist, loner, egoist, narcissist, wallflower, autist

Words nearby Brooder

brood bitch, brood bud, brood parasite, brood parasitism, brood pouch, brooder, brooding, broodmare, broody, brook, brook farm

Origin of Brooder

before 1000; Middle English; Old English brōd; cognate with Dutch broed, German Brut. See breed

Words that may be confused with Brooder

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, broodbrewed, brood

Other words from Brooder

brood·less , adjective
un·brood·ed , adjective

Word origin for Brooder

Old English brōd ; related to Middle High German bruot , Dutch broed ; see breed

Synonyms for Brooder

egoist, egotist, loner, narcissist, solitary, wallflower, autist, self-observer