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beret

UK/ˈbɛɹeɪ//bəˈɹeɪ/

beret noun: a type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure it to the head; usually culturally associated with France.

beret: a type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure it to the head; usually...
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Noun

beret (plural berets)

  1. A type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure it to the head; usually culturally associated with France.

beret meaning in Kannada, Arabic, Persian and Vietnamese

beret in Kannada

ಮೃದುವಾದ ಚಪ್ಪಟೆ ದುಂಡು ಟೋಪಿ

beret in Arabic

type of brimless cap
بِيرِيه bērē, بُرْنَيْطَة burnayṭa, كُمَّة kumma, لَاطِيَّة lāṭiyya

beret in Persian

type of brimless cap
بره bere

beret in Vietnamese

type of brimless cap
mũ nồi

Forms of beret

pluralberets
alternative formbéret
alternative form (archaic)berret

Plural of beret: berets

Origin of beret

Borrowed from French béret, from Occitan (Gascon) berret (“cap”), from Old Occitan berret, from Medieval Latin birretum, from Late Latin birrus (“large hooded cloak”), from Gaulish birrus (“short cloak”), from Proto-Celtic *birros (“short”) (compare Welsh byr, Middle Irish berr). Compare biretta.

Words formed from beret

Questions about beret

What does beret mean?
Beret means a type of round, brimless cap with a soft top and a headband to secure it to the head; usually culturally associated with France.
What is beret in Kannada?
Beret in Kannada is ಮೃದುವಾದ ಚಪ್ಪಟೆ ದುಂಡು ಟೋಪಿ. See Beret meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is beret?
Beret is a noun.
How do you pronounce beret?
Beret is pronounced /ˈbɛɹeɪ/ (UK).
What is the plural of beret?
The plural of beret is berets.

Words near beret in the dictionary

  1. Bereshith
  2. beresque
  3. Berestechko
  4. berestology
  5. Berestyn
  6. beret
  7. bereted
  8. Beretinec
  9. beretless
  10. beretlike
  11. berets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beret (page history and authors); beret (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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