Explore Brahms through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like composer or music. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Brahms meaning
Pissed, drunk.
Using Brahms
- The main meaning on this page is: Pissed, drunk.
- Useful related words include: johannes brahms, composer, music.
- In the example corpus, brahms often appears in combinations such as: brahms and, and brahms, brahms was.
Context around Brahms
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Brahms
- In this selection, "brahms" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, johannes, hamburg, name, sent, himself and underneath stand out and add context to how "brahms" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include adele asked brahms to autograph and bell played brahms s violin. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "brahms" sits close to words such as abeokuta, abstained and accenture, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with brahms
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I like playing Bach, Brahms. (5 words)
Brahms wrote just two, Dvořák one. (6 words)
Jude holds Brahms and slowly turns before the director yelled cut. (11 words)
Brahms and the Schumanns At some time before 1853 when Robert Schumann had been in Hamburg, Brahms sent to him a packet of scores of his compositions, but at that point the name Brahms was unfamiliar to Schumann, and he had returned the packet unopened. (45 words)
Musgrave (editor) Michael The Cambridge Companion to Brahms Cambridge University Press, p. 9 The young Brahms gave a few public concerts in Hamburg, but did not become well known as a pianist until he made a concert tour at the age of nineteen. (43 words)
The concerts will be filmed in Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center and will feature chamber works from the 17th to the 21st centuries, including repertoire by Brahms, Mozart, Carl Nielsen, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Tchaikovsky, Caroline Shaw and others. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Brahms and the Schumanns At some time before 1853 when Robert Schumann had been in Hamburg, Brahms sent to him a packet of scores of his compositions, but at that point the name Brahms was unfamiliar to Schumann, and he had returned the packet unopened.
Mr. Bell played Brahms’s Violin Concerto in D minor, which Mr. Huberman had played as a teenager for an audience that included Brahms himself.
An old anecdote recounts that when Strauss's wife Adele asked Brahms to autograph her fan, he wrote the first few notes of the "Blue Danube" waltz, and then wrote the words "Unfortunately not by Johannes Brahms!" underneath.
Brahms from 1865 to 1874 spent parts of some summers living in an apartment nearby in a house which is now a museum, the "Brahmshaus" (Brahms house).
Clara Schumann and Brahms, "Briefe" Some of Brahms's earliest letters to Clara show him deeply in love with her.
Musgrave (editor) Michael The Cambridge Companion to Brahms Cambridge University Press, p. 9 The young Brahms gave a few public concerts in Hamburg, but did not become well known as a pianist until he made a concert tour at the age of nineteen.
The traditional gypsy folklore played in the restaurants and coffee houses of Budapest inspired many a composer, including Johannes Brahms and Franz Liszt.
Brahms wrote just two, Dvořák one.
I like playing Bach, Brahms.
These technological changes allowed composers to express on the piano a delicacy, intensity, and emotional complexity (characteristic of Chopin and Brahms), that would previously have been technically quite difficult and historically quite out of place.
After the first film revealed some of the secrets behind Brahms, this sequel looks like it gets even crazier as the young boy in this family, Jude, befriends the odd effigy.
And when it comes to the sequel arriving in theaters in February, it looks like Brahms may be tied to something even more sinister than the first movie revealed.
Director Bell tips the movie’s hand so soon, revealing that Brahms really is supernatural practically right away, that most of the running time is spent waiting for the protagonists to catch up.
Garrick Ohlsson… presented a demanding recital of works by Brahms and Chopin, earning a standing ovation and the call for two encores.
In their new home, they find Brahms; it's easy to imagine what happens from there.
Jude holds Brahms and slowly turns before the director yelled cut.
The concerts will be filmed in Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center and will feature chamber works from the 17th to the 21st centuries, including repertoire by Brahms, Mozart, Carl Nielsen, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Tchaikovsky, Caroline Shaw and others.
The only veteran on the offensive line, in fact, is Nick Brahms, who has started nine games over the past two seasons.
Unaware of the terrifying history of Heelshire Mansion, a young family moves into a guest house on the estate where their young son soon makes an unsettling new friend – an eerily lifelike doll that he calls “Brahms”.
Brahms was thrilled when at the first performance of his second symphony the third movement had to be played three times before the audience would allow the finale to be played.
Common combinations with brahms
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- brahms and 15×
- and brahms 10×
- brahms was 7×
- johannes brahms 6×
- brahms wrote 6×
- by brahms 6×
- of brahms 5×
- to brahms 4×
- from brahms 4×
- brahms to 3×