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Briget

Briget is the archaic spelling of Bridget.

Meaning of Bridget

Proper noun

Bridget

  1. A female given name from Irish.
    • And when Miſtreſſe Briget loſt the handle of her Fan, I took't vpon mine honour thou hadſt it not.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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Questions about Briget

What is Briget the archaic spelling of?
Briget is the archaic spelling of Bridget.

Words near Briget in the dictionary

  1. Brigantian
  2. brigantine
  3. brigantines
  4. Brigantis
  5. brigatinib
  6. Briget
  7. Brigettine
  8. Brigettines
  9. Brigg
  10. brigge
  11. brigges

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Briget (page history and authors); Bridget (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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