Crossword-Solution: BREVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Breve | n. | A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was formerly of a square figure (as thus: / ), but is now made oval, with a line perpendicular to the staff on each of its sides; -- formerly much used for choir service. |
| Breve | n. | Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court. |
| Breve | n. | A curved mark [/] used commonly to indicate the short quantity of a vowel. |
| Breve | n. | The great ant thrush of Sumatra (Pitta gigas), which has a very short tail. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BREVE | anagram | VERBE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BREVE (5)
And so he went on, dawdling over “Don Quixote,” adding a chapter now and again, and putting it aside to turn to “Persiles and Sigismunda”—which, as we know, was to be the most entertaining book in the language, and the rival of “Theagenes and Chariclea”—or finishing off one of his darling comedies; and if Robles asked when “Don Quixote” would be ready, the answer no doubt was: En breve—shortly, there was time enough for that.
But when the vehicle was well on its way, and he had behind him the sad Calvary where his honour hung gibbeted, Jansoulet, utterly overcome, laid his head on his mother’s shoulder, hid it in the old green shawl, and there, with the burning tears flowing, all his great body shaken by sobs, he returned to the cry of his childhood: “Mother.” DRAMAS OF PARIS Que l’heure est donc breve, Qu’on passe en aimant! C’est moins qu’un moment, Un peu plus qu’un reve.
Questa eta giovenil, ch' e si gioiosa, Tutta in diletto consumar si deve, Perche quasi in un punto ci e nas cosa: Como dissolve 'l sol la bianca neve, Como in un giorno la vermiglia rosa Perde il vago color in tempo breve, Cosi fugge l' eta com' un baleno, E non si puo tener, che non ha freno.'" (Bojardo, _Orlando Innamorato,_ lib.
You see, I have never come to Jerusalem.' Then again he murmured: "'Hic breve vivitur, hic breve plangitur, hic breve fletur; Non breve vivere, non breve plangere, retribuetur." And James, seeing that nothing lulled him like song, offered to sing that mysteriously beautiful rhythm of Bernard of Morlaix.
Meier.[FN#369] The ancient Greeks who, like the modern Germans, invented nothing but were great improvers of what other races invented, attributed the formal apostolate of Sotadism to Orpheus, whose stigmata were worn by the Thracian women; —Omnemque refugerat Orpheus Fmineam venerem;— Ille etiam Thracum populis fuit auctor, amorem In teneres transferre mares: citraque juventam Ætatis breve ver, et primos carpere flores.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Tribune, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 75 times in crossword archives (1949–2023).