bren

1. 1.

   a submachine gun operated by gas pressure; used by the British in World War II

   SynonymsBren gun

   Broadersubmachine gun

Other forms of bren

plural

brens·

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.

Questions about bren

What does bren mean?

bren means "a submachine gun operated by gas pressure; used by the British in World War II".

How many syllables are in bren?

bren has 1 syllable: bren. In IPA it is /ˈbɹɛn/.

What is another word for bren?

Close synonyms include Bren gun. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bren a common word?

bren is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.