Breton

¹

[ bruh-tawn ]

noun

1. An·dré [ah, n, -, drey], 1896–1966, French poet, essayist, and critic.
2. Jules A·dolphe [zhyl , a, -, dawlf], 1827–1906, French painter.

Breton

²

[ bret-n; French bruh-tawn ]

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Brittany.
2. Also called Armorican, the Celtic language of Brittany.
3. (often lowercase) a round hat for women, with a flat crown and a turned-up brim.

adjective

1. pertaining to Brittany, the Bretons, or their language.

Breton

¹

/ brətɔ̃ /

noun

1. BretonAndré18961966MFrenchWRITING: poetARTS AND CRAFTS: critic André (ɑ̃dre). 1896–1966, French poet and art critic: founder and chief theorist of surrealism, publishing the first surrealist manifesto in 1924

Breton

²

/ ˈbrɛtən; brətɔ̃ /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Brittany, its people, or their language

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Brittany, esp one who speaks the Breton language
2. the indigenous language of Brittany, belonging to the Brythonic subgroup of the Celtic family of languages

Word History and Origins

Origin of Breton¹

1815–20; < French breton; replacing Britain, Brit ( t ) on, Breton used for both this sense and the sense of Briton

Example Sentences

The 72-year-old mother and grandmother, her hair styled into a neat bob, wears colourful dresses and Breton tops.

From BBC

Lookers-on included a small, enthusiastic group of tourists from the northwestern French region of Brittany, where the ship’s homeport of Nantes is, waving French and Breton flags.

From Seattle Times

According to Ms Vestager, the investigation will take around 12 months to complete -though Mr Breton later clarified it could take slightly longer.

From BBC

“They Come to Us Without a Word,” her installation at the 2015 Venice Biennale, featured gauzy projections of Jonas, animals and bees layered with narrated ghost stories in the oral tradition of Cape Breton.

From New York Times

Much of that growth relied on a debt-financed spending spree of acquisitions, many of them when Atos was led by Thierry Breton, a former finance minister and the current European Union commissioner for internal markets.

From New York Times