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Definitions: Brit |
BritNoun1. A native or inhabitant of Great Britain. 2. The young of a herring or sprat or similar fish. 3. Minute crustaceans forming food for right whales. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Brit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Synonym: BritSynonym: britt (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Brit |
| English words defined with "Brit": Abbot of Misrule, Augmentation court ♦ Bowing stone ♦ Dragon's head ♦ Grace drink, graphic ♦ Semitic language ♦ To rake out, To wait on, Trial of the pyx ♦ Wages fund, works council. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Brit": colliery plan ♦ Flins ♦ Guendolna ♦ heavy crop ♦ large colliery, Locrin ♦ national grid, national grid coordinates ♦ schnorkle, small colliery, solid map, solid rock, standing time ♦ wake current. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Brit" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (Briton), Czech (britisher, briton), Dutch (Briton), Hungarian (britain, britannic, British, britisher, briton), Serbo-Croatian (briton). |
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Screenplays | James Bond, stiff-assed Brit (GoldenEye; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Michael France) I mean, for crying out loud another stiff ass Brit, with your secret codes and your passwords. (GoldenEye; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Michael France) | |
Movie/TV Titles | True Brit (2003) Brit Awards 2003 (2003) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | John Forbes, M.D., F.R.S., D.C.L. : Physician to Her Majestey's Household, Editor of the Brit. and Foriegn Medical Review. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Brit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.89% of the time. "Brit" is used about 90 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 78.89% | 71 | 39,674 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.22% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Unclassified Items | 1.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 90 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| France | Brit Air | United Kingdom | Brit Insurance |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
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Beginning with "Brit": brit-based, Brit-for-champ, brit-hater, Brit-huns, Brit-pol, brit-ragga, brit-rock, brit-style, Brit-ton-gant. | |
Ending with "Brit": anti-brit, non-brit, pro-brit, True-brit. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
brit | 203 | brit wide world | 8 |
brit hume | 77 | air brit crash | 8 |
alex brit | 54 | encyclopedia brit | 7 |
brit pop | 43 | brit nude | 7 |
brit rail | 41 | brit wife | 7 |
brit texasdigital.com | 31 | art brit | 6 |
brit milah | 30 | brit morgan | 6 |
brit spear | 26 | brit brunette | 6 |
alex brit smith | 25 | brit mila | 6 |
brit air | 25 | bris brit milah milah | 6 |
brit babe | 20 | bike brit | 5 |
brit country | 19 | 2003 award brit | 5 |
alex blonde brit sheer | 18 | brit eckland | 5 |
brit award | 14 | brit andrew | 5 |
brit texasdigital | 11 | brit spear nude | 5 |
brit festival | 10 | award brit classical | 5 |
brit rail pass | 9 | brit rock | 5 |
brit fox hume news | 9 | brit jpg maya | 5 |
brit mil | 8 | brit rom | 5 |
brit gift mila | 8 | brit school | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Brit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
French | coupole vitrée (brit astro hatch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | brite (britisher, Briton), tommy (pom), Tarbutt (brett, brill, kite, pearl, turbot), Kleist (brett, brill, kite, pearl), Glattbutt (brill), engländer (adjustable spanner, beefeater, britishers, english, englishman, limey, monkey wrench, Sassenach). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | chi è di gran bretagna. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itbray британец (Britisher). (various references) britanyalı, ingiliz (anglo-, britisher, english, english woman, englishman, gringo, john bull, limey, sassenach). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Rhombus laevis, Rhombus vulgaris, turbot lisse, VE barbue. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Brit": britches, brits, britska, britskas, britt, brittle, brittled, brittlely, brittleness, brittlenesses, brittler, brittles, brittlest, brittling, brittly, britts, britzka, britzkas, britzska, britzskas. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Brit": celebrities, celebrity, embrittle, embrittled, embrittlement, embrittlements, embrittles, embrittling, ignimbrite, ignimbrites, insalubrities, insalubrity, muliebrities, muliebrity, noncelebrities, noncelebrity, salubrities, salubrity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Brit" (pronounced bri"t) |
| 4 | b r i" t | Britt. |
| 3 | -r i" t | grit, writ. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-r-t" | |
-1 letter: bit, rib. | |
-2 letters: bi, it, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-r-t" | |
+1 letter: birth, biter, brits, britt, bruit, orbit, tribe. | |
+2 letters: baiter, barite, begirt, bestir, births, bister, bistre, bistro, biters, bitter, bright, britts, bruits, orbits, probit, rabbit, rebait, riblet, rubati, terbia, terbic, timber, timbre, tribal, tribes, trilby, turbid, turbit. | |
+3 letters: airboat, arbiter, baiters, barefit, barites, barytic, battier, bedirty, bestirs, bestrid, bigotry, biotron, biparty, biretta, birthed, bisters, bistort, bistred, bistres, bistros, bittern, bitters, bittier, blister, blither, bornite, bothria, brevity, brights, briquet, brisant, brisket, bristle, bristly, bristol, britska, brittle, brittly, britzka, bruited, bruiter, brutify, bruting, brutish, brutism, burkite, burrito, bustier, butyric, butyrin, catbird, deorbit, dirtbag, disturb, driblet, fatbird, filbert, gilbert, imbrute, inburst, liberty, librate, orbiest, orbital, orbited, orbiter, probits, probity, rabbits, rabbity, rarebit, rebaits, rebirth, rebuilt, redbait, reitbok, riblets, ribwort, robotic, rubiest, strobic, strobil, taborin, terbias, terbium, terebic, thrombi, tilbury, timbers, timbral, timbrel, timbres, triable, tribade, tribune, tribute, tubbier, tumbril, turbine, turbith, turbits, vibrant, vibrate, vibrato. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 72 69 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-. .. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110010 01101001 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B r i t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0072 0069 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36847586 |
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Duits, Duitser, Duitse taal, Germaan, gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, المانية, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, роден, германски, немски език, немски, немец, готически, германец, 德語 , 德语, 德文 , 德國 , nìmecký, nìmec, tysker, Duitse, týskur, týskt, týskari, saksalainen, Allemand, Dútsk, Deutsche, Deutsch, "ερμανός, gjermanisht, 'רמ י, 'רמ ית, német, þjóðverji, þýskur, GearmÚnach, GearmÚinis, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, todesch, Germaanagh, Garmane, Germaanish, Carmane, aleman, Niemiec, niemiecki, alemão, alemand, neamţ, немецкий, Siamani, germanski, alemán, Tudesku, Doysri, mjeremani, mdachi, sí-Jalimáne, tysk, เยอรมัน, าษาเยอรมัน, Alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr, isiJalimane, iliJalimane, iJalimane, for German; Italianer, Italiaans, Italiaan, شخص إيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, الإيطالي, إيطالي, Italianu, италиански език, италиански, италианец, Italyano, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italština, italský, ital, italiener, italienskt, italialainen, Italien, Italjaansk, italienisch, Ιταλός, italisht, איטלקי, איטלקית, olasz, Ítali, IodÚilis, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, Włoch, italianã, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, итальянский язык, итальянский, итальянец, Italia, italijanski, italijanski jezik, italijan, sí-Taliyáne, italienare, italiensk, italienska, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, ชาวอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка, for Italian; 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