brim

Meaning

Noun

1. Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
2. Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
3. Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
4. (especially) Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
5. (archaic, poetic) Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
6. (obsolete) Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
7. (figuratively, obsolete) Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.

Verb

1. (transitive) To fill (a container) to the brim (noun sense 1.1), top, or upper edge.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To fill (something) fully.
3. (also, figuratively, intransitive) To be full until almost overflowing.

Verb

1. (archaic, transitive) Of a boar (“male pig”): to mate with (a sow (“female pig”)); to rut.
2. (archaic, intransitive) Of a sow: to be in heat; to rut; also, to mate with a boar.

Adj

Synonym of breme (“of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous”).

Synonyms

edge

rim

brink

border

fringe

margin

lip

verge

side

overflow

ledge

brow

bank

🏦

edging

coast

limb

marge

mouth

end

🔚

extremity

beach

🏖️

perimeter

periphery

tip

rand

seashore

hem

shore

seaside

selvage

slop

threshold

tour

turn

twirl

virgin

fill to the brim

redfish

rudder fish

selvedge

top up

spokesman of chief

fully loaded

edge water

arris

Bermuda sea chub

black snapper

blear-eyed snapper

brim snapper

filled to the brim

Translations

bord

rand

borde

orlo

Rand

ala

🪽

aba

γύρος

boord

kenar

bordo

falda

Krempe

tesa

zoom

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɹɪm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: brim

Cognate with Dutch: berm

Cognate with Bavarian: Bräm

Cognate with German: Bräme

Cognate with Danish: bræmme

Cognate with Swedish: bräm

Cognate with Icelandic: barmur

Inherited from Old English: bremman

In summary

The noun is derived from Middle English brem, brim, brimme (“bank, edge, or margin of a lake or river; shore of a sea; brink; rim”); further etymology uncertain, probably related to Middle High German brem, breme (“border, edge, brim”) and Old Norse barmr (“rim”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰren- (“to project”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
* Bavarian Bräm (“border, stripe”)
* Danish bræmme (“border, edge, brim”)
* German Bräme, Brame (“border, edge”)
* Swedish bräm (“border, edge”)
* Icelandic barmur (“edge, verge, brink”)