English Online Dictionary. What means brandon? What does brandon mean?
Esperanto
Noun
brandon
- accusative singular of brando
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French brandon, from Old French brandon, from Frankish *brand (“burnt log; brand; cinder”) + -on.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʁɑ̃.dɔ̃/
Noun
brandon m (plural brandons)
- firebrand; torch made of twisted straw [from mid-12th c.]
- loose, burning material from a fire
- (figuratively) firebrand (someone or something that is a source of trouble)
- straw at the end of a staff placed at the corner of a field to indicate the juridical seizure of a crop
Descendants
- → Spanish: blandón
- → Galician: brandón
Further reading
- “brandon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.