"brie" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /bɹiː/ Audio: en-us-brie.ogg Forms: bries [plural]
Rhymes: -iː Etymology: Borrowed from French brie, after the region of Brie, from Gaulish *brigā, from Proto-Celtic *brigā (“hill, fortress”). Doublet of Brie; see also Bourgogne. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰerǵʰ-}}, {{bor|en|fr|brie}} French brie, {{der|en|cel-gau|*brigā}} Gaulish *brigā, {{der|en|cel-pro|*brigā|t=hill, fortress}} Proto-Celtic *brigā (“hill, fortress”), {{doublet|en|Brie}} Doublet of Brie Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} brie (countable and uncountable, plural bries)
  1. An originally French variety of soft cheese made from cow's milk. Wikipedia link: brie Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Cheeses Categories (place): Île-de-France Related terms: camembert Translations (mild French cheese): بْرِي (brī) [masculine] (Arabic), 布利乾酪 /布利干酪 (bùlì gānlào) (Chinese Mandarin), 布利奶酪 (bùlì nǎilào) (Chinese Mandarin), 布利乳酪 (bùlì rǔlào) (Chinese Mandarin), 布里乳酪 (bùlǐ rǔlào) (Chinese Mandarin), brie [masculine] (Dutch), brio (Esperanto), brie (Finnish), briejuusto (Finnish), brie [masculine] (French), Brie [masculine] (German), μπρι (bri) (Greek), ברי (Hebrew), ブリー (burī) (Japanese), ブリーチーズ (burīchīzu) (Japanese), 브리 (beuri) (Korean), 브리 치즈 (beuri chijeu) (Korean), бри (bri) [neuter] (Macedonian), pirī (Maori), بری (bri) (Persian), brie [masculine] (Polish), brie [masculine] (Portuguese), brie [neuter] (Romanian), бри (bri) [masculine] (Russian), brie [masculine] (Spanish), брі (bri) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (05fdf6b and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.