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Definition: Brandy |
BrandyNoun1. Distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Brandy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the brandy". |
Date "brandy" was first used: 1657. (references) |
Etymology: Brandy \Bran"dy\, noun; plural Brandies. [From older brandywine, brandwine, from Dutch brandewijn, from present participle of branden to burn, distill wijn wine, akin to German branntwein. See Brand.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | BRANDY, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the- grave and four parts clarified Satan. Dose, a headful all the time. Brandy is said by Dr. Johnson to be the drink of heroes. Only a hero will venture to drink it. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of brandy, foretells that while you may reach heights of distinction and wealth, you will lack that innate refinement which wins true friendship from people whom you most wish to please. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | The spirit obtained by distilling wine. In Australia and South Africa refers to the potable spirit obtained by distilling wine. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Natural spirit obtained by distilling wine or grape marc. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Slang in 1811 | BRANDY. Brandy is Latin for a goose; a memento to prevent the animal from rising in the stomach by a glass of the good creature. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Brandy (short for brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn - distilled wine) is a general term for distilled wine, usually 60-80% alcohol by volume.
It is also used to indicate spirits distilled from other fruit, for instance plum brandy.
The European Union legally enforces Cognac as the exclusive name for brandy produced and distilled in the Cognac area of France, and Armagnac from the Armagnac area of France, using traditional techniques.
Brandy is the stage name of R&B singer and actress Brandy Norwood.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Brandy."
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Brandy (b. Brandy Norwood February 11, 1979) is a female African-American R&B singer and actress, who is a native of McComb, Mississippi.Norwood's father was a pastor, and by the age of two, she was singing at his church. Brandy became a fan of Whitney Houston, and she told her father that she wanted to be a singer, like Houston. At the age of four, the Norwoods moved to California, where Brandy began her artistic career singing at talent shows in 1990. At 11, she met a record producer who took her to various record companies and led her to backup singing jobs with two groups: Norment and the more successful Immature.
She starred in a couple of television shows in the 1990s, including the popular Moesha in which she played the lead character, a rambunctious young teen. Later, she starred in Rodger And Hammerstein's television version of Cinderella (see fan site).
Career History
When Brandy was 14, she was finally able to land a record deal, with Atlantic Records, and in late 1994 her first album, Brandy, was released, reaching gold status in less than two months. It quickly went on to achieve triple platinum, thanks to its popular singles "Best Friend," "Brokenhearted (featuring Wayna Morris of Boyz II Men," "Baby," and "I Wanna Be Down". Brandy quickly became an MTV star and was all over the channel and the radio in 1995.
Towards the end of that year, she contributed a song to the Waiting To Exhale soundtrack, called "Sittin' Up In My Room". It became a huge hit in early 1996, in part thanks to a popular rap remix that featured LL Cool J.
Awards started to come by soon after, and in 1995 she attended the Billboard Music Awards. Her next award show, the 1996 MTV Awards brought her better luck, and she won the Best Movie Song award for Sitting Up In My Room. She was also nominated for a Grammy in the Best New Artist category, and won the NCAAP Image Award in that same category, as well as the Soul Train Award, also as Best New Artist.
That same year, Brandy teamed up with Tamia, Chaka Khan, and Gladys Knight, for the single "Missing You," off of the ... soundtrack. Even with the superstar lineup, it was Brandy's least successful single yet, but was still a moderate hit.
In late 1998 Brandy released her second album, Never Say Never, shortly after its first single, a duet with media "rival" Monica called "The Boy Is Mine," spent eleven weeks on top of the Hot 100 chart that summer. The album was also a number one smash on the Billboard 200 Albums chart, eventually becoming multi-platinum. The album's other singles "Top Of The World," a duet with rapper Mase; "Almost Doesn't Count;" and "U Don't Know Me (Like U Used To)," which had a hip hop remix version which was used for the video and featured rappers Da Brat and Shaunta; were more minor hits in late 1998 and through 1999. The album's third single, "Have You Ever," was a big number one pop and R&B hit in early 1999.
The successful album was also nominated for a Rhythm and Blues Award and a Grammy award, both as Best Album Of The Year, and she co-hosted the American Music Awards, where she was nominated for Favorite Female Artist Of The Year in both their Rock & Pop and Soul categories. "The Boy Is Mine" won the Best Rhythm and Blues Performance by a Duo/Duet Of The Year award at the Grammy's.
Brandy's third album, Full Moon was released in early 2002 and spawned the hits "What About Us" and "Full Moon," whose video featured a five-month-pregnant Brandy and whose lyrics explain how Brandy felt when she first saw her husband.
Brandy has also tried her hand at acting, and her credits include a small role in Arachnophobia, a hit series named Moesha (where she played the main character), a minor part in Demolition Man, the main character in Cinderella (tv movie), a television movie with Diana Ross called Double Platinum, and one of the main characters in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.
Some of her biggest songs include:
It should be noted that in 1996, Brandy was taken to her prom by Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant.
- Baby
- I Wanna Be Down
- Brokenhearted
- Sittin' Up In My Room
- The Boy Is Mine
- Have You Ever
- What About Us
- Full Moon
She is currently married (it was kept a secret for months) to Robert Smith and has a daughter, Sy'rai, who was born in the summer of 2003.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Brandy (singer)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Brandy Norwood (born February 11, 1979) is an African-American female singer who is a native of McComb, Mississippi.Norwood's father was a pastor, and by the age of two, she was singing at his church. Brandy became a fan of Whitney Houston, and she told her father that she wanted to be a singer, like Ms. Houston. At the age of four, the Norwoods moved to California, where Brandy began her artistic career singing at talent shows in 1990. At 11, she met a record producer who took her to various record companies and led her to backup singing jobs with two groups: Norment and the more successful Immature.
When Brandy was 14, she was able to land a record deal, with Atlantic Records, and in 1994 her first album, Brandy, was released, reaching gold status in less than two months, and triple platinum status soon after.
Awards started to come soon after, and in 1995 she attended the Billboard Music Awards. Her next award show, the 1996 MTV Awards brought her better luck, and she won the Best Movie Song award for "Sitting Up In My Room". She was also nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best New Artist category, and won the NAACP Image Award in that same category, as well as the Soul Train Award, also as Best New Artist. She also did a duet with Lenny Kravitz, a video with Boyz II Men and a song in the soundtrack of Waiting To Exhale. Her second album, 1998's Never Say Never, was nominated for a Rhythm and Blues Award and a Grammy Award, both as Best Album Of The Year, and she co-hosted the American Music Awards, where she was nominated for Favorite Female Artist Of The Year in both their Rock & Pop and Soul categories.
That year, she also had a duet with Monica Arnold, producing the hit "The Boy Is Mine", which won the Best Rhythm and Blues Performance by a Duo/Duet Of The Year award at the Grammys.
Brandy has also tried her hand at acting, and her credits include a small role in Arachnophobia; a hit series named Moesha (where she played the main character); a minor part in Demolition Man; the title character in the 1997 production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella; a television movie with Diana Ross called Double Platinum; and one of the main characters in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.
Partial discography
In 1996, Brandy was taken to her prom by Los Angeles Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant.
- "Baby"
- "I Wanna Be Down"
- "Brokenhearted"
- "Sitting Up In My Room"
- "The Boy Is Mine"
- "Have You Ever"
In March of 2002, Brandy released her third effort, Full Moon. The album included singles such as, the title track and What About Us.
She is now married, and recently had a baby girl.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Brandy Norwood."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin, grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer; (beverage); aguardiente; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash; chain lightning, champagne, gin, ginsling; highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres. |
Strength | Stubborn, thick-ribbed, made of iron, deep-rooted; strong as a lion, strong as a horse, strong as an ox, strong as brandy; sound as a roach; in fine feather, in high feather;stubborn, thick-ribbed, made of iron, deep-rooted; strong as a lion, strong as a horse, strong as an ox, strong as brandy; sound as a roach; in fine feather, in high feather; built like a brick shithouse; like a giant refreshed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | But, We would like a brandy. (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron) How do you like your brandy, sir (The Big Sleep; writing credit: William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, and Jules Furthman. Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler.) Better have smelling salts handy and a nip of brandy. (Witness for the Prosecution; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Larry Marcus) Would the doctor care for a brandy before retiring (Young Frankenstein; writing credit: Mary Shelley; Gene Wilder) They named a brandy after Napoleon, they made a herring out of Bismarck, and the Fuhrer is going to end up as a piece of cheese (To Be or Not to Be; writing credit: Melchior Lengyel; Edwin Justus Mayer) | |
Clever | Food use for medicinal purposes never count, such as hot chocolate, brandy, toast, and Sara Lee Cheesecake. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Brandy in the Wilderness (1971) Intimate Portrait: Brandy (2002) Ray J in Concert with Brandy (1997) | |
Song Titles | Brandy (Your A Fine Girl) (performing artist: Looking Glass) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Technician Brandy Jones examines a rose plant that began as cells grown in a tissue culture. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Pvt. George Henry Williams, Virginia Regiment, killed at Brandy Station, Va., half-length portrait, facing front. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Portrait of Pvt. George Henry, Virginia Regiment, killed at Brandy Station, Va. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Brandy Station, Va. Band of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry (Zouaves). Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Brandy Station. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Smoking bacon--Army teamsters at hdqters, Brandy Station. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Camp of the 37th Mass. Vol's. near Brandy Station, Va. / Bakers; J.H. Bufford's lith., Boston. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Brandy Rose after rain 1" by Jean Ilderton Commentary: "Taken just after a short rain in the desert (Tucson) ." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Samuel Johnson | Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | These insults were thrown out in a voice roughened by brandy, from a hideous mouth which lacked the two front teeth |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Armenia | Armenian vineyards are well-known for producing brandy, wines, and other liqueurs. (references) |
Armenia | Recent major U.S. investment projects include the Hotel Armenia, the Hotel Ani; a Greek-owned Coca-Cola bottling plant; petroleum exploration by the American-Armenian Exploration Company; upgrading of the wine and brandy production at Ararat winery; a large perlite mining and processing plant; and the joint venture Jermuk, which produces one of the more popular brands of mineral water in Armenia. (references) | |
Trade | Moldova | The imports and sales of vodka, liqueurs and other alcoholic drink; grape, fruit and berry wine; sparkling wine; brandy and cognac; tobacco products, coffee, perfumes and furs are allowed by customs and fiscal bodies if they were marked with excise stamps during their production. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | As the rescuers moved about, they found a bottle of brandy she'd stored behind the staircase, which was all that was left standing. |
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| "Brandy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.89% of the time. "Brandy" is used about 923 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.89% | 922 | 7,808 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 923 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "brandy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Brandy | First name Female | 70,000 | 276 |
| Brandy | Last name | 1,000 | 13,102 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Brandy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the brandy". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "brandy". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Brande | Female | English | The brandy |
| Brandi | Female | English | The brandy |
| Brandie | Female | English | The brandy |
| Brandy | Female | English | The brandy |
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| The following table summarizes names related to "Brandy." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Brande | Female | English | Brandy |
| Brandi | Female | English | Brandy |
| Brandie | Female | English | Brandy |
| Brandy | Female | English | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "brandy": Apple brandy ♦ beverage brandy ♦ brandy butter ♦ brandy flask ♦ Brandy fruit ♦ brandy glass ♦ brandy nose ♦ brandy snifter ♦ brandy Station ♦ cherry brandy ♦ Cider brandy ♦ dashed with brandy ♦ fortifying brandy ♦ peach brandy ♦ plum brandy ♦ raw brandy. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "brandy": brandy-and-soda, brandy-bottle, brandy-drenched, brandy-drinking, brandy-snap. | |
Ending with "brandy": cider-brandy, solo-brandy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
brandy | 5,638 | brandy full lyrics moon | 42 |
brandy dahl | 804 | brandy dejongh | 38 |
brandy norwood | 401 | brandy husband split | 37 |
brandy lyrics | 249 | brandy news | 37 |
brandy ledford | 245 | brandy roderick | 36 |
brandy ever have lyrics | 136 | brandy husband | 34 |
brandy davis | 126 | brandy liquor | 34 |
brandy dahl fitness model | 105 | brandy full moon | 34 |
brandy divorce | 92 | brandy ledford nude | 33 |
brandy picture | 73 | dean and brandy | 33 |
brandy singer | 62 | baby brandy | 32 |
brandy sander | 60 | brandy drink | 31 |
brandy robert smith | 58 | brandy ritchey | 31 |
brandy smith | 57 | brandy pic | 30 |
boy brandy lyrics mine | 56 | brandy dahl picture | 30 |
brandy ever have | 52 | making brandy | 28 |
brandy flores | 51 | brandy alexander | 28 |
brandy and monica | 48 | brandy nude | 26 |
brandy dahl pic | 46 | brandy everything i i it lyrics | 26 |
almost brandy count doesn lyrics t | 42 | brandy dahl nude | 26 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "brandy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | brandewyn. (various references) | |
Albanian | konjak (cognac, eau de vie). (various references) | |
Arabic | كونياك (cognac), البراندي, شراب مسكر (boose, booze, champagne, drink, drinking, inebriant, intoxicant, medicine, nappy, peg, pot, rum). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ракия (eau de vie, raki, schnapps), бренди. (various references) | |
Chinese | 白蘭地 , 白兰地酒 (Brandies). (various references) | |
Czech | brandy. (various references) | |
Danish | cognac (cognac). (various references) | |
Dutch | vuurwater, brandy (cognac), brandewijn. (various references) | |
Esperanto | brando, konjako (cognac). (various references) | |
Faeroese | brennivín, konjak (cognac). (various references) | |
Farsi | کنیاک (Cognac), باکنیاک مخلوطکردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | konjakki (cognac). (various references) | |
French | cognac, eau-de-vie. (various references) | |
Frisian | brandewyn, konjak (cognac). (various references) | |
German | weinbrand (brandies), branntwein (firewater, spirits), Kognak (cognac), Schnaps (booze, drink, liquor, schnapps, schnaps, spirits). (various references) | |
Greek | κονιάκ (cognac). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | konjak (cognac). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יין שרף (gin, whisky), קוניאק (cognac), ברנדי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | konyak (bingo, cognac, french brandy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | brendi, minuman keras (booze, cocktail, intoxicant, liquor). (various references) | |
Irish | coinneac (cognac). (various references) | |
Italian | cognac (cognac). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ブラウン管 (black, Black Africa, black box, black chamber, black coffee, black comedy, black ghetto, black hole, black humor, black journalism, black magic, black market, black Monday, black money, Black Panther, black pepper, Black Power, black shaft, black tie, blackjack, blacklist, blackout, bland, blank, blanket, blanket area, blood bank, blood elite, bra, bra cup, bracket, Brad Pitt, branch, brand, brand image, brand loyalty, brass, brass-band, brasserie, brassie, brassiere, Bratislava, bravo, Brazil, brothers, brunch, brush, brush back pitch, brushy, Brussels, cathode-ray tube). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ブランデー . (various references) | |
Korean | 브랜디 (Brandies). (various references) | |
Manx | liggar feeyney (cognac), feeyn lostit, brandee. (various references) | |
Norwegian | brennevin (liquor). (various references) | |
Papiamen | koñak (cognac). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andybray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | conhaque (cognac), aguardente (aquavitae, blue rum, cognac, hootch, spirit). (various references) | |
Romanian | rachiu, coniac (cognac, lace). (various references) | |
Russian | коньяк (cognac, eau de vie, eau-de-vie, French brandy), бренди. (various references) | |
Scottish | branndaidh. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rakija (schnapps). (various references) | |
Spanish | coñac (cognac), brandy, aguardiente (aqua vitae, booze, hard liquor, schnapps, spirits). (various references) | |
Sranan | apankra. (various references) | |
Swedish | konjak (cognac), brännvin (scandinavian vodka, schnapps). (various references) | |
Turkish | kanyak (cognac, eau de vie). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | бренді (bingo). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | rượu branđi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | brandewijn. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "brandy": brandying. (additional references) | |
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"Brandy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blandy, Borondy, Bradby, bradys, branda, Brande, brandie, brandir, brandr, Brindy, broncy, Bronydd, Brudney, brund, byrnand. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "brandy" (pronounced bra"ndē) |
| 5 | -r a" n d ē | Randy. |
| 4 | -a" n d ē | bandy, candy, Dandy, handy, Sandy, shandy. |
| 3 | -n d ē | attendee, Burgundy, glissandi, Lindy, trendy, windy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-n-r-y" | |
-1 letter: bandy, barny, brand, randy. | |
-2 letters: band, bard, barn, brad, bran, bray, darb, darn, drab, dray, nard, nary, rand, rynd, yard, yarn. | |
-3 letters: aby, and, any, arb, bad, ban, bar, bay, bra, dab, day, dry, nab, nay, rad, ran, ray, rya, yar. | |
-4 letters: ab, ad, an, ar, ay, ba, by, na, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-n-r-y" | |
+2 letters: banditry, barnyard, boneyard, boundary. | |
+3 letters: barnyards, blarneyed, boneyards, brandying, bystander, endurably, grandbaby, husbandry. | |
+4 letters: bradykinin, bystanders, cybernated, debonairly, pardonably, prebendary. | |
+5 letters: bradykinins, candleberry, denumerably, embryonated, hydrocarbon, keyboarding, rhabdomancy, undesirably, unendurably. | |
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