brewer

See also: Brewer

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹuː.ə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)

Noun

brewer (plural brewers)

1. Someone who brews, or whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎:

     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.

   • 2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business‎:

     Danish brewer Carlsberg (CABGY)plans to send its CEO, a spokesman confirmed.

Derived terms

• breweress
• brewer's droop
• homebrewer
• macrobrewer
• microbrewer
• nanobrewer
• underbrewer

Translations

someone who brews

Basque: garagardogile (eu) Belarusian: півава́р m (pivavár), півава́рка f (pivavárka) Danish: brygger (da) c Dutch: brouwer (nl) m Finnish: oluenpanija (fi) French: brasseur (fr) m, brasseuse (fr) f German: Brauer (de) m, Brauerin (de) f, Bierbrauer (de) m (literally “beer brewer”), Bierbrauerin (de) f (literally “beer brewer”) Greek: Ancient: ζυτοποιός m (zutopoiós) Hungarian: sörfőző (hu) (literally “beer brewer”) Icelandic: bruggari m Irish: bríbhéir m, grúdaire m Italian: birraio (it) m, birraia f Latvian: aldaris m, aldare f Lithuanian: alùdaris m, alùdarė f Macedonian: пи́вар m (pívar), пи́варка f (pívarka) Maori: kaikōpiro, kaikōpiro waipiro, kaitoroī, kaiwhakai Norman: bracheux m (Jersey) Persian: بوزاگر (buzâgar) Polish: piwowar (pl) m Portuguese: cervejeiro (pt) m Romanian: berar (ro) m Russian: пивова́р (ru) m (pivovár), пивова́рка (ru) f (pivovárka) Spanish: cervecero (es) m, Swedish: bryggare (sv) c Ukrainian: пивова́р (uk) m (pyvovár), пивова́рка f (pyvovárka) Welsh: bragwr m

See also

• homebrewed

Anagrams

• Werber, rebrew

Middle English

Noun

brewer

1. alternative form of brewere