Associations to the word «Brittany»

Wiktionary

BRITTANY, proper noun. A region in north-west France. [from 15th c.]
BRITTANY, proper noun. (obsolete) (chiefly poetic) The British Isles. [15th-19th c.]
BRITTANY, proper noun. A female given name popular in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s.

Dictionary definition

BRITTANY, noun. A former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats