Usually means: Short in duration or extent.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. briefly: Merriam-Webster
  2. briefly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. briefly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. briefly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Briefly, briefly: Wordnik
  6. briefly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. briefly: Wiktionary
  8. briefly: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Briefly, briefly: Dictionary.com
  10. briefly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Briefly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. briefly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. briefly: Rhymezone
  14. briefly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. briefly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. briefly: FreeDictionary.org
  17. briefly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. briefly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. briefly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. briefly: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. briefly: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  (manner) In a brief manner, summarily.
adverb:  (duration) For a brief period.
adverb:  To be brief, in short.

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