brittany

1. 1.

   a former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay

   SynonymsBretagneBreiz

   BroaderFrench region

   Part ofFrance

Other forms of brittany

plural

brittanies·

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 brittany

What does brittany mean?

brittany means "a former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay".

How many syllables are in brittany?

brittany has 3 syllables: brit-ta-ny. The stress falls on "brit". In IPA it is /ˈbɹɪtəni/.

What is another word for brittany?

Close synonyms include Bretagne, Breiz. 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 brittany a common word?

brittany 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.