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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Bruce, David Bruce, Sir David Brucenoun

    Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931)

  2. Bruce, Robert the Bruce, Robert Inoun

    king of Scotland from 1306 to 1329; defeated the English army under Edward II at Bannockburn and gained recognition of Scottish independence (1274-1329)

Wiktionary

  1. Brucenoun

    A Scottish surname, most notably of Robert the Bruce.

  2. Brucenoun

    transferred from the surname.

  3. brucenoun

    A man.

    See wikiSaurus:man

  4. Etymology: From Bruce.

Wikipedia

  1. Bruce

    The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has been a Scottish surname since medieval times; it is now a common given name. The variant Lebrix and Le Brix are French variations of the surname.

ChatGPT

  1. Bruce

    Bruce is a common masculine given name of Scottish origin. It is derived from the surname Bruce, which originated from the Scottish place name Brix, meaning "willowlands" in the Gaelic language. The name Bruce is often associated with traits like strength, honor, and resilience. It is used as a first name for males in various cultures around the world.

Wikidata

  1. Bruce

    Bruce was a provincial electoral district in western Ontario, Canada. It elected members to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The riding existed from 1934 to 1967 and again from 1987 to 1999. The riding was abolished in 1999 into Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound and Huron—Bruce. It consisted of the entirety of Bruce County.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Bruce

    a family illustrious in Scottish history, descended from a Norman knight, Robert de Bruis, who came over with the Conqueror, and who acquired lands first in Northumberland and then in Annandale.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BRUCE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bruce is ranked #636 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Bruce surname appeared 53,419 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 18 would have the surname Bruce.

    77.3% or 41,320 total occurrences were White.
    15.8% or 8,488 total occurrences were Black.
    2.7% or 1,442 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.2% or 1,175 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.1% or 604 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.7% or 395 total occurrences were Asian.

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'bruce' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4511

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Anagrams for bruce »

  1. cuber

  2. cebur

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bruce in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bruce in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of bruce in a Sentence

  1. Kourtney Kardashian:

    Couldn't be a more proud daughter. With courage and bravery, let's change the world. I am honored to stand by Bruce's side and support Kendall Jenner.

  2. Todd Bowles:

    I think when you take a head job you have to wear a lot of hats, but you don't ever experience wearing those hats, when you understand that going in … without the experience I think you tend to do things a little differently. You have to be man enough to know when you can change things. Usually, when people get fired, they blame everybody else. The first thing I did was look within Todd Bowles, and there were a lot of things I can do better. BRUCE ARIANS DISMISSES TOM BRADY BEEF AFTER ANNOUNCING HE IS STEPPING DOWN AS BUCS HEAD COACH.

  3. Todd Bowles:

    Good players make good coaches, so you always want to have good players, i ’m not going to apologize for inheriting a talented team. I’ve had less success with a team. It’s different to the fact that I do n’t think I can go into this trying to be Bruce. I would fail miserably if I tried. ... I can be me.

  4. Sarah Paulson:

    I love his [ M. Night Shyamalan ] movies. I've always loved his movies. I remember where I was when I saw' Sixth Sense,'' Unbreakable' and' Signs' and what I did after. i just remember so many points in my own personal history that are associated with seeing movies of Bruce Willis.

  5. Bruce Willis:

    I would get Bruce Willis into a situation and at some point I had learned that if someone wants, values me sexually, or I feel like they desire me, then they are entitled to me, when I was like 14, because I was so shamed like when all those blogs came out about how I looked, how my face looked, then my idea was that,' Oh, well then, if I'm desired sexually, then I have value.'.

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