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brutes Meaning & Definition

/bɹuːts/

What Does Brutes Mean?

As a noun, brutes means plural of brute.

Brutes Definition (Noun)

  1. plural of brute

Noun

  1. An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
  2. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.

    One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed "I just got out of jail."

  3. (Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.

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Brutes in a Sentence

One of them was a hulking brute of a man, heavily tattooed and with a hardened face that practically screamed "I just got out of jail."

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