BRANDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does branded mean? 

• BRANDED (adjective)
  The adjective BRANDED has 2 senses:

1. (of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights

2. marked with a brand

  Familiarity information: BRANDED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRANDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of goods and merchandise) marked or labeled by a distinctive word or symbol indicating exclusive rights

Context example:

branded merchandise is that bearing a standard brand name

Similar:

proprietary (protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Marked with a brand

Context example:

branded criminal

Antonym:

unbranded (not marked with a brand)

 Context examples 

I would rather wed a branded serf from my father's fields.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I would have her branded on the face, dressed in rags, and cast out in the streets to starve.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A non branded nor registered name that meant for common use.

(Generic Name, NCI Thesaurus)

And now—and now I am myself a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which I sold my character.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On one of these boards I saw, branded with a hot iron, the name WALRUS—the name of Flint's ship.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)