Brim
nounThe projecting edge of a hat, or the top rim of a cup, bowl, or other container.
How to spell brim
4 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce brim
What does brim mean?
- nounThe projecting edge of a hat, or the top rim of a cup, bowl, or other container.
- verbTo be full to the point of nearly overflowing.
Brim in a sentence
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noun
The wide brim of her hat shaded her eyes from the afternoon sun.
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verb
Her eyes began to brim with tears as she read the letter.
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noun
He filled the mug right up to the brim with coffee.
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verb
The reservoir will brim after several days of heavy rain.
Where does brim come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
Brim comes from Middle English brimme, meaning the edge or margin of something, and it appears in English texts from around the 1200s. Its deeper roots are Germanic, related to forms in Middle High German such as brem, meaning a border or edging, and the underlying sense was always the rim or boundary of a surface. Over time the word narrowed to two everyday uses: the projecting edge of a hat and the upper rim of a cup or bowl. From the noun came the verb meaning to be filled right up to that edge, as a glass brims with water. Because the word is short and phonetically regular, the only spelling point to remember is the single m, since the related family member rim shares the same idea of an edge.
How the word is built
- brim (single Old English-derived root meaning edge or border); no affixes
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