verb
bren
brehn
verb
1
(archaic, dialectal) To burn or set ablaze.
"The old ballad tells of a village that bren to the ground in a single night."
name
1
A short form of the given names Brenda or Brendan.
"Everyone at work just calls him Bren."
How to Use Bren
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAn old word meaning "to burn," now mostly obsolete except in dialect; today it's far more common as a nickname for Brenda or Brendan.
Easily confused with
Word Forms
brenned past tense, brent past tense, Brens plural, brens singular
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Etymology
From Middle English brennen, itself from Old Norse brenna — a doublet of the modern word "burn," which comes from the same root.