Definitions for Briar
ˈbraɪ ərbri·ar

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanterianoun

   Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

2. 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

3. 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

4. briar, briar pipenoun

   a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. briarnoun

   Any of a number of unrelated thicket-forming thorny plants.

2. briarnoun

   A pipe made from the burl of the white heath tree.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Briarnoun

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1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Briarnoun

   same as Brier

2. Briarnoun

   a plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax

3. Briarnoun

   fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

Matched Categories

1. • Erica
   • Pipe
   • Rose

How to pronounce Briar?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Briar in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Briar in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Briar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Briar in a Sentence

1. Attorney General Mark Herring:

   I am pleased that the parties were able to reach a mediated resolution to the litigation involving Sweet Briar College.

2. Emily Brontë:

   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?

3. Renee Falcioni:

   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.’.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Briar
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Briar
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Briar
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Briar
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Briar
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html