breves
Portuguese, noun
breves is spelled B-R-E-V-E-S (6 letters) and appears 3.5 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 15,758th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Breves is a Portuguese noun meaning “plural of breve” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a masculine/feminine plural of breve. With an accent, brevês is a different word: “plural of brevê”.
What does breves mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinemasculine/feminine plural of breve
noun
- 1
plural of breve
noun
- 1
plural of brevê
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. município brasileiro do estado do Pará
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is breves in Portuguese?
breves appears 3.5 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).