bronze medal
10
2.0
- noun
- /brɒnz ˈmɛdəl/
:
medalla de bronce
- Four years later, in Helsinki, he would earn a bronze medal.
- silver and bronze medal
- gold, silver, and bronze medal
- bronze medal will be awarded
And you know, Terry put a lot of demons to rest with that bronze medal.
- And you know, Terry put a lot of demons to rest with that bronze medal.
- I think Team Israel, they're hosting, but they I think they can maybe challenge the Iroquois for that bronze medal.
- And the Duke of Edinburgh put his medal on the bronze medal.
Examples
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No wonder this lad went on to earn a bronze medal at the high school level.
Academic text (1990) -
Four years earlier, she captured a pair of silver medals and three bronze medals at the Barcelona Olympics.
Blog text (3) -
But if we come back to France with a bronze medal, it could be a good thing for us.
Blog text (24) -
Is it a success if you go back home with the bronze medal?
Blog text (24) -
The college also gave him its bronze medal that year for faculty achievement.
Academic text (2012) -
Ann Holmes of the Pennsylvania Athletic Club beat out Australian Sarah Perkins for the bronze medal in this year's race.
Blog text (14) -
Retaining her popularity with the Salon jury, she won a bronze medal for her impressionist painting of a young mother holding her child, entitled Happiness of Home.
Fiction book (1993) -
Desiree Burns with Miranda Cullins achieved the bronze medal, filling the top three ranks with the name USRowing.
Blog text (14) -
Saugatuck Rowing Club came through with the bronze medal, trailed by Oreans Sweeps and Watercat Rowing Club.
Blog text (14) -
After a tough competition, she proudly received her bronze medal for finishing in third place.
Synonyms
3
2.9
Coming third in a competition or race
Antonyms
15
1.1
A metal object, usually silver, given to the person who comes second in a competition
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'bronze' names the metal/material and 'medal' names the award, so the meaning 'a medal made of bronze' follows immediately from the constituents. This noun+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and therefore a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE (even if they need separate exposure to the competition-ranking convention of bronze = third).
Etymology
The noun bronze medal comes from the custom of giving medals made of metals: gold for first and silver for second. Because bronze is less valuable than gold or silver, a bronze medal means 'third place'.