Antonyms for branch


Grammar : Noun
Spell : branch, brahnch
Phonetic Transcription : bræntʃ, brɑntʃ


Definition of branch

Origin :
  • c.1300, braunch, "limb of a tree" (also used of things analogous to it, especially geographic features), from Old French branche "branch, bough, twig; branch of a family" (12c.), from Late Latin branca "footprint," later "a claw, paw," of unknown origin, probably from Gaulish. The connecting notion would be the shape (cf. pedigree). Replaced native bough. Meaning "local office of a business" is first recorded 1817, from earlier sense of "component part of a system" (1690s).
  • noun department
  • noun arm, limb
Example sentences :
  • Caricature, by the way, is a branch of Georgian Art which M. Rouquet neglects.
  • Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson
  • Lieutenant Ford was wounded and a branch of an artery was cut.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
  • Just as he dropped a branch down at her feet, she caught the sound of wheels.
  • Extract from : « The Little Colonel » by Annie Fellows Johnston
  • At this moment, the note of a bird sounded from the branch of a neighboring tree.
  • Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Accordingly, Jason took the branch at its word, and lopped it off the tree.
  • Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Soon I thought I heard a snapping of a branch away off up the mountain.
  • Extract from : « A Woman Tenderfoot » by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
  • We have in Berkshire a branch of this road called the Ridgeway.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • Was it his imagination, or did a branch snap, a twig rustle down the road?
  • Extract from : « The Green Satin Gown » by Laura E. Richards
  • It is quite as honourable, or dishonourable, which ever it may be, as any other branch of business.
  • Extract from : « In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories » by Robert Barr
  • I been thinking I might likely kind of branch out on my own account.
  • Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington

Synonyms for branch

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