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BRIC

BRIC is the initialism of Brazil.

Meaning of Brazil

Proper noun

Brazil

  1. A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil. Capital: Brasília.
    • In February, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe in Brazil made brief contact with the outside world before returning to the Amazon rainforest.2025 April 4, Lex Harvey and Esha Mitra, “US tourist arrested after allegedly attempting to contact ‘world’s most isolated’ tribe”, in CNN
  2. A city, the county seat of Clay County, Indiana, United States.

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Noun

BRIC (plural BRICs)

  1. Any of those four countries.

Forms of BRIC

pluralBRICs

Origin of BRIC

Coined by British economist Jim O'Neill in 2001.

Questions about BRIC

What does BRIC mean?
BRIC means any of those four countries.
What is BRIC the initialism of?
BRIC is the initialism of Brazil.
What part of speech is BRIC?
BRIC is a noun.
What is the plural of BRIC?
The plural of BRIC is BRICs.

Words near BRIC in the dictionary

  1. Bribiescas
  2. bribing
  3. bribings
  4. Bribri
  5. Bribris
  6. BRIC
  7. bric-a-brac
  8. bric-a-bracker
  9. bric-a-brackeries
  10. bric-a-brackery
  11. bric-a-bracquerie

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: BRIC (page history and authors); Brazil (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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