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brestois

French, adjective

brestois is spelled B-R-E-S-T-O-I-S (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 41,186th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Brestois is a French adjective meaning “of, from or relating to the port city of Brest, Finistère department, Brittany, France” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Brestois is a different word: “native or inhabitant of the port city of Brest, Finistère department…”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif à Brest, commune française située dans le département du Finistère”.

What does brestois mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    of, from or relating to the port city of Brest, Finistère department, Brittany, France

noun

as Brestois
  1. 1

    masculinenative or inhabitant of the port city of Brest, Finistère department, Brittany, France (usually male)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Habitant de Brest, commune française située dans le département du Finistère.

adjective: 1. Relatif à Brest, commune française située dans le département du Finistère.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of brestois

  • Brestoise feminine
  • brestoise feminine
  • brestoises feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is brestois in French?

brestois appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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