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breese

breese is the obsolete spelling of breeze.

Meaning of breeze

Noun (1)

breeze (plural breezes)

  1. A light, gentle wind.
    • The breeze rustled the papers on her desk.
  2. (figuratively) Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
    • After studying Latin, Spanish was a breeze.
  3. Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
  4. An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
    • The discovery produced a breeze.
  5. A brief workout for a racehorse.

Noun (2)

breeze (plural breezes)

  1. (intransitive) A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.

See all 13 meanings of breeze

Proper noun capitalized: Breese

Breese (plural Breeses)

  1. A surname.

Forms of breese

Noun
pluralbreeses
Proper noun
pluralBreeses

Questions about breese

What does breese mean?
Breese means a surname.
What is breese the obsolete spelling of?
Breese is the obsolete spelling of breeze.
What part of speech is breese?
Breese is a proper noun.

Words near breese in the dictionary

  1. breengeing
  2. breenges
  3. breenging
  4. Breens
  5. brees
  6. breese
  7. breeses
  8. Breeza
  9. breeze
  10. breeze off
  11. breeze past

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Adapted from Wiktionary: breese (page history and authors); Breese (page history and authors); breeze (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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