brian Meaning & Definition
What Does Brian Mean?
As a verb, brian means To keep fire at the mouth of (as of an oven), to give light or to preserve heat.
Brian Definition (Verb)
- To keep fire at the mouth of (as of an oven), to give light or to preserve heat.
Synonyms of Brian
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Brian synonyms and antonyms →Word Forms & Grammar
brian (third-person singular simple present brians, present participle brianing, simple past and past participle brianed)
Words That Rhyme With Brian
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Origin of Brian
Uncertain; connection to Old English bryne (“burning”, from Proto-Germanic *bruniz) is phonologically impossible, while descent from Middle English briaunt (“noisily”, from Anglo-Norman bruant "noisy") is both semantically difficult and poses the problem of how a hapax legomenon and presumably fairly learned word only attested in Kent within the Middle English period came to be used in Northern England.