Word.ws English Dictionary

brawls

brawls is the plural of brawl.

brawls is the third-person singular simple present indicative of brawl.

Meaning of brawl

Noun (1)

brawl (plural brawls)

  1. A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved.
    • Three Ciuell brawles bred of an airie word, / By the old Capulet and Mountague, / Haue thrice diſturbd the quiet of our ſtreets.c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]

Noun (2)

brawl (plural brawls)

  1. (obsolete) A type of dance move or step.

See all 7 meanings of brawl

Phrases with brawls

Questions about brawls

What is brawls the plural of?
Brawls is the plural of brawl.

Words near brawls in the dictionary

  1. brawlier
  2. brawliest
  3. brawling
  4. brawlingly
  5. brawlings
  6. brawls
  7. brawlsome
  8. brawly
  9. brawn
  10. brawned
  11. brawner

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: brawls (page history and authors); brawl (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “brawls.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/brawls. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.