Breme

Pronunciation

• IPA: /briːm/
• Homophones: bream

Alternative forms

• brim

Origin

From Middle English, from Old English brēme ("famous, glorious, noble"), from Proto-Germanic *brōmiz ("famous"), from *bʰrem- ("to make noise").

Full definition of breme

Adjective

1. (obsolete) Stormy, tempestuous, fierce.
• late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale:He was war of Arcite and Palamon
  Þat fouȝten breme as it were bores two.
• 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:Let me, ah! lette me in your folds ye lock,
  Ere the breme winter breede you greater griefe.
• 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence:The same to him glad Summer or the Winter breme.
• unknown date, Drayton;From the septentrion cold, in the breme freezing air.
2. (obsolete) Famous; renowned; well-known.

Anagrams

• ember