Loading page
Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
br is a noun meaning "a nonmetallic heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens; found in sea water". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a nonmetallic heavy volatile corrosive dark brown liquid element belonging to the halogens; found in sea water
a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that arose out of a student protest movement in the late 1960s; wants to separate Italy from NATO and advocates violence in the service of class warfare and revolution; mostly inactive since 1989
Italy · terrorism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for br come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.