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Bruni

Bruni proper noun: a surname from Italian.

Proper noun

Bruni (plural Brunis)

  1. A surname from Italian.
    • I even discovered in writing this newsletter that my colleague Frank Bruni had taken the phrase to task last year (“the most degrading sequence of five words in the English language”) and William Safire had commented on it in The Times all the way back in 2006.2023 September 12, John McWhorter, “What Is 'It Is What It Is'?”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2023, retrieved 13 Sep 2023

Forms of Bruni

pluralBrunis

Origin of Bruni

Borrowed from Italian Bruni.

Questions about Bruni

What does Bruni mean?
Bruni means a surname from Italian.
What part of speech is Bruni?
Bruni is a proper noun.

Words near Bruni in the dictionary

  1. Brungle Creek
  2. Brunhild
  3. Brunhilda
  4. Brunhilde
  5. Brunhildr
  6. Bruni
  7. bruniaceous
  8. brunie
  9. brunies
  10. brunification
  11. brunified

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