name
Meaning 1
A region in northern France.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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Standard Lemma guide
brie
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/bɹiː/
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homophone: bree
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CMU ARPABET: B R IY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A female given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 3
A surname.
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noun
Meaning 4
An originally French variety of soft cheese made from cow's milk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
soft creamy white cheese; milder than Camembert
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cheese
History
Etymology
From French Brie, from Gaulish *brigā, from Proto-Celtic *brigā (“hill, fortress”). Doublet of brie.
A shortening of Brianna.
Borrowed from French brie, after the region of Brie, from Gaulish *brigā, from Proto-Celtic *brigā (“hill, fortress”). Doublet of Brie; see also Bourgogne.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: بْرِي (brī) — mild French cheese
- Bulgarian: бри (bri) — mild French cheese
- Chinese Mandarin: 布利乾酪 /布利干酪 (bùlì gānlào) — mild French cheese
- Chinese Mandarin: 布利奶酪 (bùlì nǎilào) — mild French cheese
- Chinese Mandarin: 布利乳酪 (bùlì rǔlào) — mild French cheese
- Chinese Mandarin: 布里乳酪 (bùlǐ rǔlào) — mild French cheese
- Dutch: brie — mild French cheese
- Esperanto: brio — mild French cheese
- Finnish: brie — mild French cheese
- Finnish: briejuusto — mild French cheese
- French: brie — mild French cheese
- German: Brie — mild French cheese
- Greek: μπρι (bri) — mild French cheese
- Hebrew: ברי — mild French cheese
- Japanese: ブリー (burī) — mild French cheese
- Japanese: ブリーチーズ (burīchīzu) — mild French cheese
- Korean: 브리 (beuri) — mild French cheese
- Korean: 브리 치즈 (beuri chijeu) — mild French cheese
- Macedonian: бри (bri) — mild French cheese
- Māori: pirī — mild French cheese
- Persian: بری (bri) — mild French cheese
- Polish: brie — mild French cheese
- Portuguese: brie — mild French cheese
- Romanian: brie — mild French cheese
- Russian: бри (bri) — mild French cheese
- Spanish: brie — mild French cheese
- Ukrainian: брі (bri) — mild French cheese