brood

«brood» in Mova's school dictionary: A family of baby birds or other young animals born at the… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (brood, broods); verb (brood, broods, brooded, brooding)

meaning for a pupil

1) A family of baby birds or other young animals born at the same time. tree →

2) (humorous) A large family of children. tree →

3) To sit on eggs to keep them warm until they hatch. tree →

4) To keep thinking about something that makes you unhappy or angry, in a gloomy way. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons, a hen broods her eggs and raises a brood of chicks. In stories, a brooding character is quiet and gloomy. A «broody» hen wants to sit on eggs; a broody person (UK informal) wants a baby.

examples

• The hen had a brood of ten chicks. tree →
• The bird broods her eggs for two weeks. tree →
• Stop brooding over that argument. tree →
• He sat brooding in his room. tree →
• Mrs Weasley looked after her large brood. tree →
• The ducks led their brood to the pond. tree →
• He is a disgrace to any brood. tree →

note

Do not confuse with «brewed». Brooding is like sulking and worrying together; talking to someone often helps.

In the corpora

• Upon my right hand rise the brood; they entangle my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «brood» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.