Meaning

2 senses
  1. A person who brews (vocationally or avocationally); especially, one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors, usually as part of an alemaking or beermaking process.

    His great-grandfather was the brewer for the estate.

    Brauer, Brauerin, Bierbrauer

    пивова́рpivovár, пивова́ркаpivovárka

    пивова́рpyvovár, пивова́ркаpyvovárka

    someone who brews beer or ale from malt and hops and water

  2. A company that brews beer or ale.

    By that time, Anheuser-Busch was the largest brewer in the region.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Her father is a brewer.

    Її батько — пивовар. — deniko

    ruЕё отец — пивовар. — Karok

    deIhr Vater ist Brauer. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. He is a brewer of beer by trade.

    deEr ist Bierbrauer von Beruf. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tom is a brewer.

  4. Guinness, a brewer, compiled a book of facts and figures that became a perennial bestseller.

  5. “Especially the alcohol-free types are currently very much sought after,” said Marc-Oliver Huhnholz, from the German Brewer-Association.

    de„Besonders die alkoholfreien Marken sind derzeit sehr gefragt“, sagte Marc-Oliver Huhnholz vom Deutschen Brauer-Bund. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
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Русский
By meaning 1
someone who brews:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
someone who brews:

Origin

From Middle English brewere, equivalent to brew + -er; cognate with Dutch brouwer, Swedish

From Middle English brewere, equivalent to brew + -er; cognate with Dutch brouwer, Swedish bryggare.

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Forms

plural: brewers
Singularbrewer
Pluralbrewers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • someone who brews beer or ale from malt and hops and water:beer maker

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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