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BRICS

BRICS is the acronym 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 capitalized: BRICs

BRICs

  1. (plural) plural of BRIC

Origin of BRICS

Earlier BRIC.

Questions about BRICS

What is BRICS the acronym of?
BRICS is the acronym of Brazil.
What part of speech is BRICS?
BRICS is a noun.

Words near BRICS in the dictionary

  1. bricolagists
  2. bricole
  3. bricoles
  4. bricoleur
  5. bricoleurs
  6. BRICS
  7. bridal
  8. bridal bower
  9. bridal bowers
  10. bridal carries
  11. bridal carry

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: BRICS (page history and authors); BRICs (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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