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browse
- /bɹaʊz/
- /bɹæʊz/
Sounds like brows · Rhymes with -aʊz
Where it comes from
From Middle English browsen, from Old French brouster, broster (“to nibble off buds, sprouts, and bark; browse”), from brost (“a sprout, shoot, bud”), from a Germanic source, perhaps Frankish *brust (“shoot, bud”), from Proto-Germanic *brustiz (“bud, shoot”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell, sprout”). Cognate with Bavarian Bross, Brosst (“a bud”), Old Saxon brustian (“to sprout”). Doublet of brut, breast, and brush.
verb browses · browsing · browsed
- To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand. I'm just browsing around.
- To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
- To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser. HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will.
- To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees. Sheep ranged everywhere under the low cedars. They browsed with noses in the frost, and from all around came the tinkle of tiny bells on the curly-horned rams, and an endless variety of bleats.
- To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze. The fields between / Are dewy-fresh, brows'd by deep-udder'd kine, […]
noun browses
- Young shoots and twigs. And with their horned feet the greene gras wore, / The whiles their Gotes upon the brouzes fedd […]
- Fodder for cattle and other animals. The Grand Canyon seems to us Mormons to mark the line. There's enough browse here to feed a hundred thousand cattle. But water's the thing.
- The act of browsing through something. I had a browse in the old bookshop.
- That which one browses through; something to read. Here he buried himself in a close-printed, thickish volume which had been his chosen browse for some time.
- Bruised fish used as bait. He cast in his hook-and-line, intending to take one fish only for his supper, from the multitude that always came around the rock on which he stood as soon as he cast in "browse" (garbage to attract fish).
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: shop, range, graze, pasture, crop, peruse, read, reviewing, overview, examination, review, scan, examining, address, refer, inspect
Translations
Every language
verb scan, casually look through
| Español | vichar, bichar, curiosear, ojear |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 隨便看 /随便看 suíbiàn kàn, 閒逛 /闲逛 xiánguàng, 逛一逛 guàngyīguàng |
| Português | observar |
| Français | feuilleter, parcourir |
| Deutsch | blättern, durchsuchen, stöbern, durchstöbern |
| Italiano | sfogliare, scartabellare |
| Română | răsfoi |
| Русский | просма́тривать prosmátrivatʹ, просмотре́ть prosmotrétʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | đọc lướt qua |
| العربية | تَصَفَّحَ taṣaffaḥa, اِسْتَعْرَضَ istaʕraḍa |
verb move about while sampling
| 中文 | 隨便看 /随便看 suíbiàn kàn, 閒逛 /闲逛 xiánguàng, 逛一逛 guàngyīguàng |
|---|---|
| Français | parcourir, regarder |
verb navigate through hyperlinked documents
| Español | webear |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 閲覧する etsuran suru |
| 中文 | 瀏覽 /浏览 liúlǎn |
| Português | navegar |
| Français | naviguer |
| Deutsch | browsen, surfen |
| Italiano | navigare |
| Română | naviga |
verb move about while eating parts of plants
| Español | ramonear |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 吃草 chīcǎo, 啃綠葉 /啃绿叶 kěn lǜyè |
| Português | ramonear |
| Français | brouter |
| Deutsch | grasen, äsen |
| Русский | пасти́сь pastísʹ |
noun the act of browsing through something
| Español | webeo |
|---|
Talk about this word "browse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/browse. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. browse. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/browse "browse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/browse.Cite this
@misc{browse_2026,
title = {browse},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/browse},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
