Meaning

6 senses
  1. (countable)A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.

    Meronyms: broomstick (handle), bavin (head)

    Besen, Baasa, Bäse

    метла́metlá, ве́никvénik, щёткаščótka

    мітла́mitlá, ві́никvínyk

    a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle

  2. (countable)An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.

    Besen

    щёткаščótka

  3. (countable, uncountable)Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.

    Ginster

    раки́тникrakítnik, мете́льникmetélʹnik, дрокdrok

    any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers

  4. Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.

    (countable, uncountable)Especially, of the tribe Genisteae, including genera Cytisus, Genista, and Spartium.

  5. (countable, uncountable)Of plants not closely related to those of tribe Genisteae.

  6. (countable, rare, slang, uncountable)A firearm; especially, a shotgun.

Examples

125 sentences
  1. What is a broom?

    Що таке "мітла"?

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  2. I can't find the broom.

    Я не можу знайти мітлу.

    ruЯ не могу найти метлу.

    deIch finde den Besen nicht.

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  3. Tom handed Mary a broom.

    Том передав Мері мітлу.

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  4. I need a broom.

    Мені потрібна мітла.

    ruМне нужен веник.

    deIch brauche einen Besen.

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  5. I need to borrow this broom.

    ruМне нужно взять на время этот веник.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
domestic utensil:
Русский
By meaning 2
domestic utensil:
Fabaceae shrub:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
domestic utensil:
Fabaceae shrub:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English brom, from Old English brōm (“brushwood”), from Proto-West G

Inherited from Middle English brom, from Old English brōm (“brushwood”), from Proto-West Germanic *brām (“bramble”) (compare Saterland Frisian Brom, West Frisian brem, Dutch braam, German Low German Braam), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem-, from *bʰer- ‘edge’. Related to brim, brink.

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