branded


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
brand/brand/
noun
  • 1 a type of product manufactured by a company under a particular name.

    ■ a brand name.

    ■ a particular type of something: the Finnish brand of socialism.

  • 2 an identifying mark burned on livestock with a branding iron.
  • 3 a piece of burning or smouldering wood.
  • 4 literary a sword.
verb
  • 1 mark with a branding iron.
  • 2 mark out as having a particular shameful quality: she was branded a liar.
  • 3 (usu. as adj. branded) assign a brand name to.
– derivatives
brander noun.
– origin OE brand ‘burning’, of Gmc origin; rel. to burn1.
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