Usually means: Unreasoning, purely physical beings, animals.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. brutes: Merriam-Webster
  2. brutes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. brutes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Brutes, brute's, brutes: Wordnik
  5. brutes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. brutes: Wiktionary
  7. brutes: Dictionary.com
  8. brutes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Brutes (Halo): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. brutes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brutes: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brutes, the brutes: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See brute as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (brute)

adjective:  Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
adjective:  Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
adjective:  Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
adjective:  Crude, unpolished.
adjective:  Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
adjective:  Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.
noun:  (archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
noun:  A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person, particularly one who is dim-witted.
noun:  (film, television) A kind of powerful spotlight.
noun:  (archaic, UK, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.
verb:  (transitive) To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.
verb:  Obsolete spelling of bruit. [(transitive, archaic in British, current in the US) To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc.]
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