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  brant

  noun

  any of several species of small, dark-colored geese of the genus Branta, especially B. bernicla, breeding in high northern latitudes and migrating south in the autumn.
• Brant
  Brant

  noun

  Joseph Thayendanegea, 1742–1807, Mohawk Indian chief who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.

brant

¹ American  

[brant] / brænt /

noun

• brants,
  plural
• brant
  plural

1. any of several species of small, dark-colored geese of the genus Branta, especially B. bernicla, breeding in high northern latitudes and migrating south in the autumn.

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Brant ² American  

[brant] / brænt /

noun

1. Joseph Thayendanegea, 1742–1807, Mohawk Indian chief who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.

2. a male given name.

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brant British  

/ brænt /

noun

1. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): brent goose. a small goose, Branta bernicla, that has a dark grey plumage and short neck and occurs in most northern coastal regions

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• brant
  plural
• brants
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of brant

First recorded in 1535–45; short for brantgoose, brentgoose; akin to Old Norse brandgās, German Brandgans

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The road would traverse a narrow isthmus densely dotted with shallow fresh water ponds that separates lagoons holding the world’s largest eel grass beds vital to emperor geese, brant and eiders.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2022

In spring and fall, nearly all of the world’s population of emperor and Pacific black brant geese stops to devour the refuge’s eelgrass beds for sustenance.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2017

They are forming salt marshes that more closely resemble a golf green than the Arctic tundra -- habitat that happens to be perfect for black brant geese.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 7, 2014

In the second room 25 similarly arranged images from the series “On Any Given Day in Spring” take a quite different tack, capturing wide open beaches dotted with flocks of shorebirds called brant.

From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2012

Of all birds that fall to the aim of the sportsman, the black sea brant is the most difficult to get within range of.

From Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast by Harry Thom Payne

Anonymity helped the street artist move unchecked but made some collectors wary; ”I feel more comfortable knowing who he is,” says collector Peter Brant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

Barely more than a week ago, Baffert likely would have listed his top Derby candidates as Plutarch, Litmus Test and Brant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026

Pearce’s co-defendant, 46-year-old Brant Osborn, is headed to a pretrial appointment on Nov. 18; after a mistrial in February, he will probably face a second trial.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025

Between the bank’s additions of Cadence and Veritex, Huntington is “building a powerful financial powerhouse in Texas,” Brant Standridge, who leads the firm’s consumer and regional banking, told analysts on Monday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025

Rachel Cole Brant turns and looks at me like, Are you believing this?

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

It concluded that both would have “major” impacts on brants, tundra swans, emperor geese, bears, fish and, potentially, caribou.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2017

But today, the numbers have switched: About 70 percent of the black brants now molt along the coast, having discovered the recent expansion of a new rich food source along the Beaufort Sea.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 7, 2014

The hunters all returned hungry, and drenched with rain; having seen neither deer nor elk, and the swans and brants too shy to be approached.

From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch

On the sand-bars, which here very much obstructed the course of the river, great number of geese, swans, brants, and ducks of different kinds were seen.

From Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe by William Bingley

There are such a multitude of swans, geese, brants, sheldrakes, ducks of several sorts, mallard, teal, blewings, and many other kinds of water fowl, that the plenty of them is incredible.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley

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