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bree

/bɹiː/

bree noun: the eyelid.

Noun (1)

bree (plural brees)

  1. (Scotland, dialectal, obsolete) The eyelid.
  2. (Scotland, dialectal, obsolete) The eyebrow.
  3. (Scotland) The brow; forehead.

Noun (2)

bree (plural brees)

  1. (obsolete outside Scotland) Broth.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Bree

Bree

  1. A diminutive of the female given names Breanna and Breyon.
    • We both knew Cypress had been around the block a few times. He had been a serious manwhore and only got his shit together when he found Bree.2017, E. L. Todd, 400 First Kisses, New York, NY.: Hartwick Publishing, →ISBN, page 65

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Bree

Bree (plural Brees)

  1. A surname.

bree meaning in Tamil

bree in Tamil

வடிசாறு

Forms of bree

Noun
pluralbrees
Proper noun
pluralBrees

Plural of bree: brees

Origin of bree

From Middle English brewe, bre, bregh, from Old English brēġ (“eyelid”) (Anglian dialect). Compare West Saxon brǣw, brēaw, brēaġ (“eyelid”), from Proto-Germanic *brēwō. Cognate with Dutch (wenk)brauw, German Braue. Compare brae from the same source. Apparently related to brow.

From Middle English bre, breie (“broth; gravy”), apparently from Old English brīw, brīġ (“pottage; porridge”), from Proto-West Germanic *brīw (“porridge; mash”), whence also German Brei, Dutch brij. Alternatively, the word could be a cognate of German Brühe (“broth”), from Middle High German brüeje, from the verb brüejen (“to scald, boil”), from Proto-Germanic *brōaną, whence modern German brühen, Dutch broeien, Middle Low German brȫjen. This is less likely, however, since the verb is not attested in English nor in Old Norse. Both paths eventually lead to the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil, toss, cook, brew”), whence also English broth and brew.

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Questions about bree

What does bree mean?
Bree means the eyelid.
What is bree in Tamil?
Bree in Tamil is வடிசாறு. See Bree meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bree?
Bree can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bree?
Bree is pronounced /bɹiː/.
What is the plural of bree?
The plural of bree is brees.

Words near bree in the dictionary

  1. bredrins
  2. Bredstedt
  3. Bredt
  4. bredth
  5. Bredwardine
  6. bree
  7. Breece
  8. Breeces
  9. breech
  10. breech birth
  11. breech births

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bree (page history and authors); Bree (page history and authors); bree (Tamil 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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