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Brontës

Brontës is the plural of Brontë.

Meaning of Brontë

Proper noun

Brontë (plural Brontës)

  1. An extinct surname from Irish, borne by a 19th-century literary family.
    • An 85-year injustice has been rectified at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey with the corrected spelling of one of the greatest of all literary names. Reader, it is finally Brontë, not Bronte. An amended memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë was unveiled on Thursday with added diaereses...2024 September 26, Mark Brown, “Brontë sisters finally get their dots as names corrected at Westminster Abbey”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC...
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.

Questions about Brontës

What is Brontës the plural of?
Brontës is the plural of Brontë.

Words near Brontës in the dictionary

  1. brontotheriid
  2. brontotheriids
  3. Bronté
  4. Brontë
  5. Brontëan
  6. Brontës
  7. Brontësque
  8. Bronwen
  9. Bronwydd Arms
  10. Bronwyn
  11. Bronx

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