brewer

See also: Brewer

English

Etymology

From Middle English brewere; cognate with Dutch brouwer, Swedish bryggare.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹuː.ə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)

Noun

brewer (plural brewers)

1. Someone who brews, or whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries.  By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.

Derived terms

• brewer's droop
• underbrewer

Translations

someone who brews

• Basque: garagardogile (eu)
• Belarusian: півава́р m (pivavár), півава́рка f (pivavárka)
• Danish: brygger (da) c
• Dutch: brouwer (nl) m
• Finnish: oluenpanija (fi)
• French: brasseur (fr) m, brasseuse (fr) f
• German: Brauer (de) m, Brauerin (de) f, Bierbrauer (de) m (literally “beer brewer”), Bierbrauerin (de) f (literally “beer brewer”)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ζυτοποιός m (zutopoiós)

• Hungarian: sörfőző (hu) (literally “beer brewer”)
• Icelandic: bruggari m
• Irish: bríbhéir m, grúdaire m
• Italian: birraio (it) m, birraia f
• Latvian: aldaris m, aldare f
• Macedonian: пи́вар m (pívar), пи́варка f (pívarka)
• Maori: kaikōpiro, kaikōpiro waipiro, kaitoroī
• Norman: bracheux m (Jersey)
• Persian: بوزاگر (buzâgar)
• Polish: piwowar (pl) m
• Portuguese: cervejeiro (pt) m
• Romanian: berar (ro) m
• Russian: пивова́р (ru) m (pivovár), пивова́рка (ru) f (pivovárka)
• Spanish: cervecero (es) m,
• Swedish: bryggare (sv) c
• Ukrainian: пивова́р (uk) m (pyvovár), пивова́рка f (pyvovárka)
• Welsh: bragwr m

See also

• homebrewed

Anagrams

• Werber, rebrew

Middle English

Noun

brewer

1. Alternative form of brewere