brigade
See also: Brigade and brigáda
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French brigade.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɹɪˈɡeɪd/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪd
Noun
brigade (plural brigades)
- A group of people organized for a common purpose.
- a work brigade; a fire brigade
- (military) Military unit composed of several regiments (or battalions) and including soldiers from different arms of service.
- (derogatory) A group of people who share views or a specific characteristic.
- More sympathy for career criminals from the bleeding-heart brigade!
- I wouldn't even want to be seen dead with those nerds of the bowl-cut brigade.
- (Internet slang) Coordinated online harassment, disruption or influencing, especially organized by an antagonistic website or community.
- 2020, “Comments of Reddit, Inc., before the Federal Communications Commission, Washington DC”, in fcc.gov:
- We've definitely seen an increase in abusive content since certain areas began COVID lockdowns and stay home orders, we suspect because of the growth of people having time to waste doing these sorts of brigades.
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Usage notes
- In many countries, a military brigade was traditionally formed from two or more regiments. According to the country and time period, brigade may also designate a much smaller group of soldiers. A modern US brigade usually consists of three battalions and forms part of a division.
Quotations
- 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H. T. Willetts, transl., August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 228:
- The rifle brigade had arrived in Soldau with no commander, no staff, no artillery, just four separate regiments, each of them moving as it thought best and looking for something to do.
Derived terms
- blue-rinse brigade
- brigade major
- brigade system
- bucket brigade
- demibrigade
- fire brigade
- green-ink brigade
- green ink brigade
- green welly brigade
- internet brigade
- naval brigade
- prawn sandwich brigade
- production brigade
- raincoat brigade
- Red Brigades
Related terms
- brigadier
- brigadier general
Translations
organized group of people
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military unit
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Verb
brigade (third-person singular simple present brigades, present participle brigading, simple past and past participle brigaded)
- To form or unite into a brigade; to group together.
- 1969, William O. Douglas's opinion in Brandenburg v. Ohio:
- This is, however, a classic case where speech is brigaded with action.
- 1969, William O. Douglas's opinion in Brandenburg v. Ohio:
- (Internet slang) To harass an individual or community online in a coordinated manner.
Anagrams
- Abridge, abridge, bigrade
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French brigade.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌbriˈɣaː.də/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: bri‧ga‧de
- Rhymes: -aːdə
Noun
brigade f (plural brigades)
- brigade, a military unit consisting of two or more regiments, often using combined arms or of diverse disciplines
- a police unit of varying size or purpose, but often serving a specialised purpose
Derived terms
- brigadecommandant
- brigadegeneraal
- brigadier
- brigadist
- cavaleriebrigade
- infanteriebrigade
- narcoticabrigade
- reddingsbrigade
- rollatorbrigade
- zelfmoordbrigade
Descendants
- → Indonesian: brigade
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian brigata.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʁi.ɡad/
Audio (file)
Noun
brigade f (plural brigades)
- (military) brigade [from c. 1370]
- (by extension) brigade, team of workers [from 1867]
Descendants
- → Bulgarian: бригада (brigada)
- → Catalan: brigada
- → Czech: brigáda
- → Dutch: brigade
- → Indonesian: brigade
- → English: brigade
- → German: Brigade
- → Hungarian: brigád
- → Russian: бригада (brigada)
- → Polish: brygada
- → Portuguese: brigada
- → Romanian: brigadă
- → Serbo-Croatian: бригада, brigáda
- → Slovak: brigáda
- → Spanish: brigada
- → Swedish: brigad
Further reading
- “brigade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch brigade, from French brigade, from Italian brigata.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [briˈɡadə]
- Hyphenation: bri‧ga‧dê
Noun
brigadê (first-person possessive brigadeku, second-person possessive brigademu, third-person possessive brigadenya)
- brigade: a military unit consisting of two or more regiments, often using combined arms or of diverse disciplines.
Alternative forms
- brigéd (Standard Malay)
Related terms
- brigadir
Further reading
- “brigade” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
brigade on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia id
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from French brigade, from Italian brigata, from Italian or Medieval Latin briga (“strife”).
Noun
brigade m (definite singular brigaden, indefinite plural brigader, definite plural brigadene)
- (military) a brigade
References
- “brigade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from French brigade, from Italian brigata, from Italian or Medieval Latin briga (“strife”).
Noun
brigade m (definite singular brigaden, indefinite plural brigadar, definite plural brigadane)
- (military) a brigade
References
- “brigade” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.