brick
A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
Example
“This wall is made of bricks.”
Other meanings
Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material.
“This house is made of brick.”
Something shaped like a brick.
A kind of
- ceramic
- building material
Kinds of brick
- adobe
- cope
- mud brick
- sand-lime brick
Word history
From Middle Dutch "bricke".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “brick” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.