BREST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Brest mean? 

• BREST (noun)
  The noun BREST has 1 sense:

1. a port city in northwestern France (in Brittany); the chief naval station of France

  Familiarity information: BREST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BREST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port city in northwestern France (in Brittany); the chief naval station of France

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Holonyms ("Brest" is a part of...):

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

 Context examples 

Then Cornwallis is, doubtless, keeping well up to Brest, though, for my own part, I had rather tempt them out into the open sea.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The line-of-battle ships themselves, tacking on and off outside Brest, could earn nothing save honour; but the frigates in attendance made prizes of many coasters, and these, as is the rule of the service, were counted as belonging to the fleet, and their produce divided into head-money.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)