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Definition: Brunette |
BrunetteAdjective1. Marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes; "a brunette beauty". Noun1. A person with dark (brown) hair. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Brunette" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be brown". |
Date "brunette" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonym: BrunetteSynonym: brunet (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: blond (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Brunette |
| English words defined with "brunette": brunet. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "brunette": Burnet. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Brunette" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (brunette). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) I tend to notice little things like that -- whether a girl is a blonde or a brunette. (Diamonds Are Forever; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) | |
Movie/TV Titles | My Favorite Brunette (1947) Blonde or Brunette (1927) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Two ballerinas, blond woman in front with brunette woman behind. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Head-and-shoulders image of brunette woman, facing right, wearing large blue hat. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This woman, hardly thirty years old, a beautiful brunette, stared wildly with her large black eyes |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Brunette" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Brunette" is used about 62 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) | 100% | 62 | 42,755 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "brunette" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Brunette | Last name | 1,000 | 8,960 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Brunette" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be brown". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "brunette". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Breindel | Female | Jewish | A brunette |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| The following table summarizes names related to "Brunette." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Brunette | Female | N/A | Bruno |
| Bruno | Male | French | N/A |
| Bruno | Male | German | N/A |
| Bruna | Female | Italian | Bruno |
| Brunella | Female | Italian | Bruno |
| Bruno | Male | Italian | N/A |
| Bruno | Male | Portuguese | N/A |
| Bruno | Male | Spanish | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "brunette": dumb-brunette. | |
| 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 |
brunette | 2,567 | brunette porn star | 65 |
brunette sex | 2,436 | brunette gallery | 65 |
hot brunette | 342 | brunette pic | 63 |
sexy brunette | 261 | anal brunette | 59 |
nude brunette | 258 | blonde brunette | 54 |
busty brunette | 184 | brunette girl | 52 |
brunette teen | 182 | free nude brunette | 50 |
brunette babe | 158 | free brunette | 48 |
brunette pussy | 127 | brunette porn | 45 |
naked brunette | 121 | cute brunette | 44 |
brunette hardcore | 108 | young brunette | 43 |
brunette amateur | 102 | brunette thumb | 43 |
brunette and blow job | 101 | big tit brunette | 41 |
petite brunette | 87 | black on brunette | 39 |
brunette model | 85 | brunette tit | 35 |
mature brunette | 85 | free brunette pic | 34 |
brunette lesbian | 79 | brunette facial | 33 |
brunette joke | 77 | brunette ass | 32 |
beautiful brunette | 75 | horny brunette | 31 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "brunette"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zeshkane. (various references) | |
Arabic | امرأة سمراء. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | брюнетка. (various references) | |
Czech | bruneta. (various references) | |
Dutch | bruinharig. (various references) | |
Esperanto | brunhara. (various references) | |
Farsi | سبزه (Grass, Green, Greenery, Vegetable), دارای موی مشکی یاخرماءی . (various references) | |
Finnish | tummaverinen (dark), ruskeatukkainen (brown-haired). (various references) | |
French | brunette. (various references) | |
German | brünett (dark, dark-haired). (various references) | |
Greek | καστανή, μελαχροινή. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שחרחורת. (various references) | |
Hungarian | barna (Brown, dark-skinned, dusky, swart), barna nő. (various references) | |
Italian | brunetta, mora (arrears, blackberry, delay, mulberry, negress). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ブルセラ病 (a brake, blouson, blue train, breaker, brucellosis, bull pen, bulldog, bulldozer, sleeping train). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ブルネット . (various references) | |
Manx | dhoan (brown, swarthy), caillin dhoan, ben ghoan. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unettebray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | morena (moraine), decabelocastanho. (various references) | |
Romanian | brunetã. (various references) | |
Russian | брюнетка (brunet). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | brineta, crnka. (various references) | |
Spanish | morena (moraine). (various references) | |
Swedish | brunett. (various references) | |
Turkish | esmer kadın, esmer (Blackie, Blacky, dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy, tawny). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | брюнетка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhưng tóc đen hoặc nâu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "brunette": brunettes. (additional references) | |
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"Brunette" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brodetto, bruenette, brundt, brunett, Brunetti, brunetts, brunne, brunnet, Brunot, Brutents, Bruyette, burnetii, burnette, burnetti, trenette. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "brunette" (pronounced bruwne"t) |
| 6 | b r uw n e" t | Brunet. |
| 3 | -n e" t | clarinet, cornet, coronet, Falconet, kitchenette, Luncheonette, net, nett. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-n-r-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: burette. | |
-2 letters: better, brunet, bunter, burnet, butene, butter, netter, neuter, nutter, retune, tenter, tenure, tureen. | |
-3 letters: beret, brent, brunt, brute, buret, burnt, butte, enter, enure, rebut, rente, tenet, terne, treen, tuber, tuner, tutee, utter. | |
-4 letters: been, beer, beet, bene, bent, bree, bren, brut, bunt, burn, bute, butt, erne, nett, rent, rete, rube, rune, runt. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-n-r-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: brunettes. | |
+2 letters: rebuttoned, unbuttered. | |
+3 letters: entablature, unutterable. | |
+4 letters: entablatures, unembittered. | |
+5 letters: butterfingers, interruptible, subdepartment, unforgettable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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