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Bronk

Bronk

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A family name that people use as their last name
  • proper noun
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  • Throughout the winter of 1945, Bronk and Butler gathered friends together for weekend discussions on the need to unify the biological community.
  • Detlev Bronk

The the guy from Don Bronk, Don Broko, Rob.

Examples

  • Back on shore, Bronk and Butler retreated to the Pond House, a restaurant on Penzance Point.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Roughly a year later, the war in Europe was over, and Bronk, back in the States, was keeping his promise to help Butler build a biological institute.

    Academic text (1997)

  • But just then Inga Van Bronk and the lawyer come in.

    Deathtrap (1982)

  • In 1982, William Bronk '38 won for poetry for Life Supports: New and Collected Poems.

    Blog text (5)

  • Butler asked Bronk why he had chosen the American Institute of Physics (AIP) to sponsor the event.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Bronk explained that he had no choice but to turn to AIP, rather than to biologists, for organizational help.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The idea of linking AIBS to NRC had been Bronk's.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The other was Detlev Bronk, a biologist and US Army Air Force pilot home on leave from the ravages of World War II's European Theater.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Griggs, himself a botanist, and Bronk, now chairman of NRC, sought to defuse these concerns by inviting five plant scientists and five zoologists to meet at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to discuss ideas for the new organization.

    Academic text (1997)

  • In 1982, William Bronk won a prestigious award for his poetry.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

The word Bronk is a family name or surname. A helpful way to remember it is to think of it like the common word brook, which means 'small stream', because many family names come from places or landscape features and so Bronk may once have pointed to where a family lived.