Definitions for BRAZEN
ˈbreɪ zənbrazen

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 3 votes

1. audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolentadjective

   unrestrained by convention or propriety

   "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell

2. brazenverb

   made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)

3. brazenverb

   face with defiance or impudence

   "brazen it out"

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. brazenverb

   To carry through in a brazen manner. Generally used with out or through.

2. brazenadjective

   Pertaining to, made of, or resembling brass.

3. brazenadjective

   Sounding harsh and loud, like brass cymbals or brass instruments.

4. brazenadjective

   Extremely strong; impenetrable.

5. brazenadjective

   Impudent, immodest, or shameless.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Brazenadjective

   Etymology: from brass.

   1. Made of brass.

   Get also a small pair of brazen compasses, and a fine ruler, for taking the distance. Henry Peacham.

   A bough his brazen helmet did sustain;
   His heavier arms lay scatter’d on the plain. John Dryden, Æn.

   2. Proceeding from brass: a poetical use.

   Trumpeters
   With brazen din blast you the city’s ear,
   Make mingle with your rattling tabourines. William Shakespeare.

   3. Impudent.

2. To Brazenverb

   To be impudent; to bully.

   When I used to reprimand him for his tricks, he would talk saucily, lye, and brazen it out, as if he had done nothing amiss. John Arbuthnot, Hist. of J. Bull.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. brazen

   Brazen refers to someone or something showing or characterized by boldness, shameless, or can mean excessively confident to the point of rudeness or cockiness. It can also refer to something made of or looking like brass.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Brazenadjective

   pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass

2. Brazenadjective

   sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass

3. Brazenadjective

   impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance

4. Brazenverb

   to carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BRAZEN

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Brazen is ranked #136449 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Brazen surname appeared 123 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Brazen.
   
   92.6% or 114 total occurrences were White.
   6.5% or 8 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Defy

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How to pronounce BRAZEN?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say BRAZEN in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of BRAZEN in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of BRAZEN in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of BRAZEN in a Sentence

1. Alanah Odoms Hebert:

   We're committed to making sure this brazen attack on the constitutional right to abortion access never takes effect.

2. Raj Parekh:

   Debbins flagrantly and repeatedly sold out his country, the defendant's brazen disclosures to Russian intelligence agents jeopardized Raj Parekh national security and threatened the safety of his fellow servicemen.

3. Elizabeth Warren:

   When banks plead guilty to a crime, federal agencies must do more than look the other way, the SEC has already granted waivers to each of these banks without any detailed explanation, but it is not too late for the Department of Labor to hold a public hearing before it decides that such brazen lawbreakers can be trusted managing workers' retirement accounts.

4. House Democrats:

   This information comes on the heels of reporting that OSC is also looking into Secretary Pompeo's stated commitment to rush out more of Hillary Clinton's emails by Election Day and as the Secretary has misused State Department resources on his speech tour of swing states, as we get closer to both this year's election and Secretary Pompeo own inevitable return to electoral politics, Secretary Pompeo has grown even more brazen in misusing the State Department and the taxpayer dollars that fund State Department as vehicles for the Administration's, and Secretary Pompeo own, political ambitions.

5. State John Kerry:

   Russia has engaged in an absolutely brazen and cynical process over these last days, we are talking about additional sanctions, about additional efforts, and I'm confident over the next days people will make it clear that we are not going to play this game.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=BRAZEN
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Brazen
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=BRAZEN
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/BRAZEN
6. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=BRAZEN