bruin

Other forms of bruin

plural

bruins·

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 bruin

What does bruin mean?

bruin means "a conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox'". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bruin?

bruin has 2 syllables: bru-in. The stress falls on "bru". In IPA it is /ˈbɹuɪn/.

What is another word for bruin?

Close synonyms include brown bear, Ursus arctos. 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 bruin a common word?

bruin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.