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brewer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈbɹuː.ə(ɹ)/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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.
    • But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
    • Danish brewer Carlsberg (CABGY)plans to send its CEO, a spokesman confirmed. 2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business:
    • His great-grandfather was the brewer for the estate.
  2. A company that brews beer or ale.
    • By that time, Anheuser-Busch was the largest brewer in the region.

Forms

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Coordinates

maltster · underbrewer · malter · homebrewer

Deriveds

brewer's droop · breweress · brewer's yeast · brewership · microbrewer · homebrewer · nanobrewer · underbrewer · macrobrewer

Relateds

brewery · homebrewed

Synonyms

brewery · brewster

Translations (42)

mi kaikōpiro (someone who brews) · ga grúdaire (someone who brews) · eu garagardogile (someone who brews) · sv bryggare (someone who brews) · pt cervejeiro (someone who brews) · hy գարեջրագործ (someone who brews) · da brygger (someone who brews) · ru пивова́рка (someone who brews) · mi kaikōpiro waipiro (someone who brews) · be півава́рка (someone who brews) · fr brasseur (someone who brews) · pl piwowar (someone who brews) · ro berar (someone who brews) · grc ζυτοποιός (someone who brews) · uk пивова́р (someone who brews) · fr brasseuse (someone who brews) · ga bríbhéir (someone who brews) · fa بوزاگر (someone who brews) · lt alùdaris (someone who brews) · ru пивова́р (someone who brews) · de Bierbrauerin (someone who brews) · mi kaitoroī (someone who brews) · uk пивова́рка (someone who brews) · nl brouwer (someone who brews) · mk пи́варка (someone who brews) · it birraia (someone who brews) · cy bragwr (someone who brews) · hu sörfőző (someone who brews) · it birraio (someone who brews) · de Brauer (someone who brews) · de Bierbrauer (someone who brews) · is bruggari (someone who brews) · de Brauerin (someone who brews) · fi oluenpanija (someone who brews) · mk пи́вар (someone who brews) · be півава́р (someone who brews) · lt alùdarė (someone who brews) · es cervecero (someone who brews) · nrf bracheux (someone who brews) · lv aldare (someone who brews) · mi kaiwhakai (someone who brews) · lv aldaris (someone who brews)

wikidata: Q836904 · wikidata: Q131734