Brittany

English <dab>,Duchy of + Alternative forms female given name en Britani Britanni Britany Britnee Britneigh Britney Britny Brittaneigh Brittani Brittanny Brittnee Brittneigh Brittney Brittny Brit'nee Bryttney region en Britanny obsolete Etymology en ine-pro *kʷer- en enm Bretany, enm Brytany, itself borrowed from en la-med Britannia, applied to Brittany from at least the 6th century, and reinforced by en frm Bretagne. See la Britannia for more. en Britain Britannia. Pronunciation en UK en /ˈbɹɪ.tə.ni/ /ˈbɹɪt.ni/ en [ˈbɹɪʔn̩.ni] [ˈbɹɪʔni] GA en en-us-Brittany.ogg US Proper noun en Q327en cultural region/historic province/and/peninsula in northwest c/France. from 15th c. II VI First, will I see the Coronation, / And then to Britanny Ile crosse the Sea, / To effect this marriage, so it please my Lord. en 1905 w:Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall w:Our Island Story 35 So Aurelius Ambrosius and Uther Pendragon fled away to that part of France called Brittany, where they remained in saftey for many years. en Q12130en administrative region of northwest c/France including most of the historic region of Brittany. from 20th c. en obsolete chiefly poetic The British Isles. 15th 19th c. IV 11 The noble Thamis […] seem'd to stoupe afore / With bowed backe, by reason of the lode / And auncient heavy burden which he bore / Of that faire City, wherein make abode / So many learned impes, that shoote abrode, / And with their braunches spred all Britany […]. en female place names 1980s and 1990s American. en 1990 w:Alice Munro Friend of My Youth 0679729577 102 - - - No one has family names. These girls with rooster hair I see on the streets. They pick the names. They're the mothers." "I have a granddaughter named Brittany," Hazel said. " And I have heard of a little girl called Cappuccino." "Cappuccino! Is that true? Why don't they call one Cassaulet? Fettuccini? Alsace-Lorraine?" en 1999 w:Andrew Pyper Lost Girls 10 Names of the times. Borrowed from soap opera characters of prominence fifteen years ago, who have since been replaced by spiffy new models: the social-climbing Brittany now an unscrupulous Burke, the generous Pamela a refitted, urbanized Parker. en-GB Anna Silman Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican w:The Guardian 2025-04-24 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/womanosphere-conservative-women 0261-3077 The leading voices of the womanosphere are using a similar strategy. As Brittany Hugoboom put it in an op–ed for the rightwing outlet Quillette: “Conservatives will never win if they imagine themselves as combatants atop defensive battlements, hurling abuse on the mass media. We need to involve ourselves in the creation of pop culture.” Derived terms en Brittana Related terms en Breton Britain British Briton Brett<qq:coordinate name> Translations region of North West France Abkhaz: ab Бретонтәыла Afrikaans: af Bretagne Albanian: sq Bretanja Arabic: ar بَرْطانِيَة f Armenian: hy Բրետան Azerbaijani: az Bretan Basque: eu Bretainia Belarusian: be Брэта́нь f Breton: br Breizh Bulgarian: bg Брета́н m Catalan: ca Bretanya f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 布列塔尼 Bùliètǎní Cornish: kw Breten Vyghan f, kw Lesow Corsican: co Bretagna f Czech: cs Bretaň f Danish: da Bretagne Dutch: nl Bretagne n Esperanto: eo Bretonio Estonian: et Bretagne Faroese: fo Bretagne f, fo Bretania f Finnish: fi Bretagne French: fr Bretagne f Old French: fro Bretaigne la Menur f Frisian: West Frisian: fy Bretanje Galician: gl Bretaña f Gallo: roa-gal Bertaèyn Georgian: ka ბრეტანი German: de Bretagne f, de Kleinbritannien n Greek: el Βρετάνη f Haitian Creole: ht Bretay f Hawaiian: haw Pilikane, haw Biritane Hebrew: he ברטאן f bretayn Hindi: hi ब्रतान्य f, hi ब्रिटेनी f, hi ब्रिटनी f Hungarian: hu Bretagne Icelandic: is Bretanía f Indonesian: id Bretagne Irish: ga Briotáin f Italian: it Bretagna f Japanese: ja ブルターニュ Burutānyu Kabyle: kab Briṭanya Korean: ko ^브르타뉴 Latin: la Britannia Minor f medieval, la Armorica f Latvian: lv Bretaņa f Lithuanian: lt Bretanė f Macedonian: mk Брета́ња f Malay: ms Bretagne Manx: gv Britaan f Norman: nrf Brétangne Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Bretagne n Nynorsk: nn Bretagne n Occitan: oc Bretanha f Old Norse: non Syðra-Bretland n, non Bretland hitt syðra n Persian: fa برتاین bretâyn Polish: pl Bretania f Portuguese: pt Bretanha f Romanian: ro Bretania f Russian: ru Брета́нь f Sardinian: sc Bretagna f Scots: sco Breetany Scottish Gaelic: gd A' Bhreatann Bheag f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Бретања f Latin: sh Bretanja f Sicilian: scn Britagna f Slovak: sk Bretónsko n Slovene: sl Bretanija f, sl Bretanja f Spanish: es Bretaña f Swedish: sv Bretagne n Tagalog: tl Bretanya Tajik: tg Бретан Thai: th เบรอตาญ Turkish: tr Bretonya Ukrainian: uk Бретань f Vietnamese: vi Brơ-ta-nhơ Volapük: vo Bretän Welsh: cy Llydaw Yiddish: yi ברעטאַן f female given name Bulgarian: bg Бри́тани f Finnish: fi Brittany Greek: el Μπρίτνεϊ f Inuktitut: iu ᑉᕆᑦᑕᓂ Japanese: ja ブリタニー Buritanī Russian: ru Бри́ттани f Sicilian: scn Brittany f Tajik: tg Бриттанӣ Noun en prison slang A coward. A gun dog of a particular breed. en 2013 Edward M. Gilbert Jr; Patricia H. Gilbert Encyclopedia of K9 Terminology A dish face is not desirable in the Brittany. A dished or upturned muzzle is considered a fault in the Redbone Coonhound. Translations dog breed Finnish: fi bretoni French: fr épagneul breton German: de Bretonischer Spaniel Spanish: es spaniel bretón See also Countries of the world en Gun dogs en exonyms