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brunet

UK/bɹuːˈnɛt//bɹuˈnɛt/

brunet adjective: of a man's or boy's hair: brown or dark brown.

Adjective

brunet (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Of a man's or boy's hair: brown or dark brown.
  2. (rare) Of a man or boy, having brown or dark brown hair.

Noun

brunet (plural brunets)

  1. (rare) A man or boy with brown or dark brown hair.

Proper noun capitalized: Brunet

Brunet (plural Brunets)

  1. A surname from French.

Forms of brunet

Noun
pluralbrunets
Proper noun
pluralBrunets

Origin of brunet

From French brunet. Compare also Middle English brunet, burnet (“brown”), from Old French brunet, which is the same word.

French Brunet

Words formed from brunet

Words that rhyme with brunet

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Questions about brunet

What does brunet mean?
Brunet means of a man's or boy's hair: brown or dark brown.
What part of speech is brunet?
Brunet can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce brunet?
Brunet is pronounced /bɹuˈnɛt/ (US).

Words near brunet in the dictionary

  1. Brunerian
  2. Bruners
  3. brunes
  4. brunescence
  5. brunescent
  6. brunet
  7. brunetness
  8. brunets
  9. Brunett
  10. brunette
  11. brunetteness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brunet (page history and authors); Brunet (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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