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brighton

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for brighton.

Editorial note

At one industry conference in Brighton the other year when his name got mentioned 1500 people collectively groaned.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A placename:

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of brighton gathered in one view.

noun

A placename:

noun

A coastal city in East Sussex, England.

noun

A hamlet in St Enoder parish and Ladock parish, south-east of Newquay, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9054).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for brighton.

noun

A placename:

noun

A coastal city in East Sussex, England.

noun

A hamlet in St Enoder parish and Ladock parish, south-east of Newquay, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW9054).

noun

A number of places in Canada:

Example sentences

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At one industry conference in Brighton the other year when his name got mentioned 1500 people collectively groaned.

2

Freelance developer based in Brighton (50 minutes from London) but I'm also in Sheffield once a month.

3

Freelance developer based in Brighton (50 minutes from London) but I'm also in Sheffield for about a week every month.

4

I kept searching for London / Croydon / Brighton expecting my city to update.

5

I once called the son of a drunk middle aged man on Brighton Beach.

6

It would be useful to have some fields to follow only twitter accounts tagged with certain locations too, for eg, London, Berkshire, Brighton etc.

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I certainly had it in Brighton while living there.

8

I have produced work for Johnson & Johnson, The British Dental Association, International Rugby Board, and of course a host of great Brighton and London based businesses.

9

I'm French, I was in St Pancras / Margate / Brighton last summer and they have new lines, one of them called The Javelin, it's extremely fast, on time, reliable, so I'd say they've made tremendous progress.

Quote examples

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I've broken up a fair few fights in Brighton now, because I'm a giant 6'1" dude, and so I can just bearhug most people whilst asking them their name and distracting them.

2

It's interesting that the British terrorist attacks so far this millenium (7/7, Woolwich, etc.) are more akin to that "non-terrorist" nail bombing than to, for example, 9/11 or the Brighton Hotel bombing.

3

I see that to use Brighton you need to import a bryton.js file and call "bryton()" on the onload event of the <body> element, and this rings my bell: isn't this a downside compared to normal javascript code?

4

I used to work at construction sites in Brooklyn where mexicans were living 10 people a room in horrible conditions in Brighton Beach, so those "nice" neighborhoods that you see in Chicago are just a face of it, try going inside the actual houses...

Proper noun examples

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In the UK (where I live) not a lot changed outside of London, and maybe Brighton.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use brighton in a sentence?

At one industry conference in Brighton the other year when his name got mentioned 1500 people collectively groaned.

What does brighton mean?

A placename:

What part of speech is brighton?

brighton is commonly used as noun.