I. bronze 1 /brɒnz $ brɑːnz/ BrE AmE noun
[ Date: 1700-1800 ; Language: French ; Origin: Italian bronzo , perhaps from Persian birinj 'copper' ]
1 . [uncountable] a hard metal that is a mixture of ↑ copper and ↑ tin :
a bell cast in bronze
2 . [uncountable] the dark reddish brown colour of bronze
3 . [countable] a work of art such as a ↑ statue (=model of a person) , made of bronze:
three bronzes by Giacometti
4 . [uncountable and countable] a ↑ bronze medal :
King won a bronze in the 100-metres.
II. bronze 2 BrE AmE adjective
1 . made of bronze:
a bronze statuette
2 . having the dark reddish brown colour of bronze