Word.ws English Dictionary

BRE

BRE is the initialism of basic regular expression.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: BrE

BrE

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of British English.
    • The authors, between them, have decades of experience teaching this material in Britain, Australia, Canada, and the USA. Although the two great dialect clusters of English – British and Australasian (BrE) and North American (AmE) – do differ syntactically in a few minor ways, the differences are...2022, Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Brett Reynolds, A Student's Introduction to English Grammar, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page xiii

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Bre

Bre

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Breanna.

Forms of BRE

pluralBREs

Questions about BRE

What does BRE mean?
BRE means a diminutive of the female given name Breanna.
What is BRE the initialism of?
BRE is the initialism of basic regular expression.
What part of speech is BRE?
BRE is a proper noun.

Words near BRE in the dictionary

  1. BRD
  2. BRDF
  3. BRDFs
  4. Brdovec
  5. BrdU
  6. BRE
  7. Brea
  8. breacan
  9. breacans
  10. breach
  11. Breach Candy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: BRE (page history and authors); BrE (page history and authors); Bre (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: “BRE.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bre. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.