A town on the Humber estuary in Elloughton-cum-Brough parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9426).
brough
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for brough.
Editorial note
It's ok that people know he's gay, it's also ok that it's not brough up all the time.
Quick take
A town on the Humber estuary in Elloughton-cum-Brough parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9426).
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of brough gathered in one view.
A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7914).
A hamlet in Brough and Shatton parish, High Peak district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1882).
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for brough.
noun
A town on the Humber estuary in Elloughton-cum-Brough parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9426).
noun
A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness district, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY7914).
noun
A hamlet in Brough and Shatton parish, High Peak district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1882).
noun
A hamlet in Collingham parish, Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK8358).
Example sentences
It's ok that people know he's gay, it's also ok that it's not brough up all the time.
This was recently brough up by Glenn Greenwald himself for the censorship of his article on jtrig.
Like the unions of the past brough the 8-hour work-week, child-labour laws, and the like.
If you brough gold bars into the country you'd be taxed in the same way.
There was a time when getting Linux running on a standard PC/laptop brough much joy...
Wasn't it the Americans who nudged the Egyptian military to topple Morsi after the Arab Spring brough an Islamist to power?
I have not yet read the original reseach paper Isaac & Brough (2014) so I might be wrong.
> Good results means we brough down the slow-downs from 60-80% (previous version) to around 15% (current version).
It was not government or military contract that brough in all that money but the 'few' pints added up to the sum.
I brough some cheese pogacza to the office and a Turkish colleague immediately recognized what it was.
Nigeria, as a poor country, cannot challenge the tech brough by Mastercard.
Fatal familial insomniac's death is brough about by neurodegeneration caused by prions.
Quote examples
Comments' to this Wired story brough me to the somewhat excited but thoughtful link: "...
Proper noun examples
:) For more modest success by an actual one-man developer, you can look at Michael Brough's games.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use brough in a sentence?
It's ok that people know he's gay, it's also ok that it's not brough up all the time.
What does brough mean?
A town on the Humber estuary in Elloughton-cum-Brough parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE9426).
What part of speech is brough?
brough is commonly used as noun.