Bruce

[broos]

noun

1. Blanche Kelso, 1841–98, U.S. politician: first African American to serve a full term as U.S. senator 1875–81.

2. Sir David, 1855–1931, Australian physician.

3. Lenny Leonard Schneider, 1926–66, U.S. comedian.

4. Robert. Robert I.

5. Stanley Melbourne 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, 1883–1967, Australian statesman: prime minister 1923–29.

6. a male given name: from a Norman family name.

Bruce

¹

/ bruːs /

noun

1. James . 1730–94, British explorer, who discovered the source of the Blue Nile (1770)

2. Lenny . 1925–66, US comedian, whose satirical sketches, esp of the sexual attitudes of his contemporaries, brought him prosecutions for obscenity, but are now regarded as full of insight as well as wit

3. Robert the Bruce See Robert I

4. Stanley Melbourne , 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne. 1883–1967, Australian statesman; prime minister, in coalition with Sir Earle Page's Country Party, of Australia (1923–29)

Bruce

²

/ bruːs /

noun

1. a jocular name for an Australian man

Example Sentences

The only affecting one in the entire picture is a grueling extended argument between Mark and Dawn, scored to Bruce Springsteen’s “Jungleland,” that captures the roiling nature of their passion.

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Months later, Bruce’s girlfriend gave birth, after hiding her pregnancy.

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To Onobrakpeya, affectionately called Baba Bruce within art circles, Nigerian Modernism is "a transfer of the old ideas, old items, old technologies, old thought into a different, modern time".

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“But one thing I did learn from Lenny Bruce, and George Carlin, and Howard Stern is that a government threat to silence a comedian the president doesn’t like is anti-American. That’s anti-American.”

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“The biggest problem we face is that there’s no agreement on what terrorism is and it’s become completely subjective,” said Bruce Hoffman, senior fellow for counter-terrorism and homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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