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# bronze

«bronze» in Mova's school dictionary: **a hard brown-gold metal made by mixing copper and tin** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (bronze; a bronze, bronzes); adjective (bronze)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Bronze is a hard brown-gold metal made by mixing copper and tin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bronze/#m1)

2) A bronze is a medal for third place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bronze/#m2)

3) A statue or object made of bronze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bronze/#m3)

4) Bronze is a reddish-brown colour, like a suntan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bronze/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In history (the Bronze Age), science (alloys), sport (bronze medal for third), art (bronze statues).

### examples

- She won bronze in the swimming race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bronze/#x1)
- Bronze is made from copper and tin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bronze/#x2)
- People in the Bronze Age made tools from bronze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bronze/#x3)
- A bronze statue stands in the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bronze/#x4)
- Gold, silver and bronze go to first, second and third. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bronze/#x5)
- His skin looked bronze after the beach holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bronze/#x6)
- “A bronze ring that is hidden under a cushion.” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bronze/#x7)

### note

In science, bronze is an alloy (a mix of metals), not a pure element. In rankings: bronze = third place. Do not confuse with brass (copper and zinc).

### In the corpora

- [Silver darkens, copper goes dull brown and then green, and bronze statues in the park grow green streaks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change/3/)
- [Metals ring when struck because they pass vibrations on well; big bells are usually made of bronze.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/16/)
- [Ranked games give you a badge — bronze, silver, gold — that goes up when you win and down when you lose.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/407-rage-quitting-and-ranked/6/)
- [Bronze is copper mixed with tin, and Cornish tin was traded across Europe for thousands of years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/10/)
- [People learned to melt copper from rocks, and later mixed copper with tin to make bronze, which is harder.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/2-the-first-farms-and-towns/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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