BrE

See also: bre, Bre, BRE, -bre, Bré, and ʼbrê

English

Proper noun

BrE

1. (linguistics) Abbreviation of British English.

   Hypernyms: English < natural language < language

   Coordinate terms: AmE; NZE (sometimes hyponymous)

   • 2022, Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Brett Reynolds, A Student's Introduction to English Grammar, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page xiii:

     The authors, between them, have decades of experience teaching this material in Britain, Australia, Canada, and the USA. Although the two great dialect clusters of English – British and Australasian (BrE) and North American (AmE) – do differ syntactically in a few minor ways, the differences are almost always a matter of preferences rather than prohibitions, and they give rise to remarkably few difficulties for exposition.

See also

• RP (“Received Pronunciation”)

Anagrams

• 'erb, Erb, REB, Reb, ber, reb