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# braw

«braw» in Mova's school dictionary: **fine, good, lovely or handsome, as in a braw day** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (braw, brawer, brawest) — Scots, dialect

### meaning for a pupil

(Scots) Braw means fine, good, lovely or handsome, as in a braw day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/braw/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Braw is a Scottish word heard in Scotland and in Scottish stories and songs. Scottish people may say It's a braw day for sunny weather or That's braw for great. In lessons on dialects it shows that English is spoken in many ways.

### examples

- It's a braw day for a walk up the hill. (Scots) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/braw/#x1)
- That's a braw jumper you've got on. (Scots) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/braw/#x2)
- We had a braw time at the ceilidh. (Scots) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/braw/#x3)
- Gran says the view is braw. (Scots) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/braw/#x4)
- A braw lad and a bonny lass walked by. (Scots) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/braw/#x5)

### note

Braw is dialect from Scotland and northern England; in standard English say fine, lovely or great. It sounds like the start of brawl without the l. Do not confuse with bra or bro.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «braw» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/braw/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.