English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of brood

brood

/noun/ बच्चे;
/verb/सेना; अंडे सेना; समूह; झोल;

Synonym children; hatch; sit; agglomeration; bouillon;

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English Dictionary:

1. Brood

[a.]

- Sitting or inclined to sit on eggs.
- Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.

2. Brood

[v. i.]

- To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding.
- To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes.

3. Brood

[v. t.]

- The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.
- The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children.
- That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
- Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
- To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens.
- To cherish with care.
- To think anxiously or moodily upon.