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curly braces

curly braces is the plural of curly brace.

Meaning of curly brace

Noun

curly brace (plural curly braces)

  1. (Commonwealth) Either { or }, having various uses in academia, math, music, computer programming and chemistry.
    Synonyms:
    accolade, (US) bracket, (US) curly bracket, (US) hooked bracket, moustache, mustache, squiggly, pregnant parenthesis
  2. (Commonwealth) Large curly brace.

Questions about curly braces

What is curly braces the plural of?
Curly braces is the plural of curly brace.

Words near curly braces in the dictionary

  1. curly apostrophes
  2. curly birch
  3. curly brace
  4. curly brace language
  5. curly brace languages
  6. curly braces
  7. curly braces language
  8. curly braces languages
  9. curly bracket
  10. curly bracket language
  11. curly bracket languages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curly braces (page history and authors); curly brace (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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