What does briar mean?
Definitions for briar
ˈbraɪ ərbri·ar
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word briar.
Princeton's WordNet
sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanterianoun
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolianoun
a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries
tree heath, briar, brier, Erica arboreanoun
evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
briar, briar pipenoun
a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
Wiktionary
briarnoun
Any of a number of unrelated thicket-forming thorny plants.
briarnoun
A pipe made from the burl of the white heath tree.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Briarnoun
ChatGPT
briar
1. A type of prickly plant or shrub, often used to refer specifically to wild roses. 2. A type of tobacco pipe made from the root burl of the tree heath plant.
Webster Dictionary
Briarnoun
same as Brier
Briarnoun
a plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax
Briarnoun
fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings
Wikidata
Briar
Briar is a census-designated place in Parker, Tarrant, and Wise counties in the U.S. state of Texas, near the west side of Eagle Mountain Lake. The population was 5,665 at the 2010 census.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BRIAR
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Briar is ranked #50564 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Briar surname appeared 413 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Briar.
95.8% or 396 total occurrences were White.
1.9% or 8 total occurrences were Asian.
1.4% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of briar in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of briar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of briar in a Sentence
I was an aisle ahead of Briar and he was cashing out an elderly man who happened to be a veteran, and the veteran was short paying for his grocery bill and without hesitation Briar took out his wallet and said, ‘I’ve got this.’.
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
Attorney General Mark Herring:
I am pleased that the parties were able to reach a mediated resolution to the litigation involving Sweet Briar College.
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- briarDanish
- DornbuschGerman
- ρείκιGreek
- briarEsperanto
- visapiippuFinnish
- églantier, bruyèreFrench
- drisScottish Gaelic
- जंगली गुलाबHindi
- mawar liarIndonesian
- ericaItalian
- צֵןHebrew
- ブライヤーJapanese
- incultisque rubens pendebitLatin
- briarNorwegian
- wrzosiecPolish
- sarçaPortuguese
- mărăciniRomanian
- шиповникRussian
- briarSwedish
- బ్రియార్Telugu
- ไม้หนามThai
- fundaTurkish
- briarYiddish
- 野蔷薇Chinese
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