Usually means: Short musical note; brief duration.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. breve: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. breve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. breve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. breve: Collins English Dictionary
  5. breve: Vocabulary.com
  6. Breve, breve: Wordnik
  7. breve: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. breve: Wiktionary
  9. breve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. breve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. breve: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Breve, breve: Dictionary.com
  13. breve: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Breve (disambiguation), Breve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Breve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. breve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. breve: Rhymezone
  18. breve: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  19. Breve, breve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. breve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. breve: Free Dictionary
  22. breve: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. breve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. breve: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Breve: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breve: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breve: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. breve: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. breve: The Folk File
  2. Breve: A Seattle Lexicon
  3. breve: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Breve: Coffee Glossary
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (orthography, printing) A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.
noun:  (music) A double whole note; a note twice as long as a semibreve.
noun:  (law) Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.
noun:  (zoology) A pitta, all of which have more or less short tails.
noun:  An equal mix of espresso and half and half cream.

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