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English
Etymology
From Middle English brewere; cognate with Dutch brouwer, Swedish bryggare.
Pronunciation
Noun
brewer (plural brewers)
- 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.
Derived terms
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
- 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
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Anagrams
Middle English
Noun
brewer
- Alternative form of brewere