brand Definition

brand
noun

1. A distinctive maker's name or trademark, symbol or design, etc used to identify a product or group of products.

Thesaurus: trademark, seal, mark, name, emblem, logo, stamp, symbol.
2. A variety or type.

Example: a special brand of humour
3. An identifying mark on cattle, etc, usually burned on with a hot iron.
4. A metal instrument with a long handle and shaped end which can be heated and then used to burn identifying marks on cattle, etc.

Form: branding-iron (also)
5. A sign or mark of disgrace or shame.
6. A piece of burning or smouldering wood.
7. Any of various fungoid diseases or blights affecting grain crops, eg mildew, rust and smut.
8. literary
A torch.
9. literary
A sword.

verb branded, branding

1. To mark (cattle, etc) with a hot iron.
2. To give someone a bad name or reputation.

Thesaurus: stigmatize, label, censure, denounce, discredit, disgrace.
3. To impress (an incident or fact, etc) permanently on to their memory.

Form: brand something upon someone's memory (especially)
4. To give a brand (sense 1) to, or fix a brand or trademark, etc upon (a product or group of products).

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon as noun 6.