Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun brit

3 senses of brit

Sense 1
Britisher, Briton, Brit -- (a native or inhabitant of Great Britain)
       => European -- (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Sense 2
brit, britt -- (the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish)
       => young fish -- (a fish that is young)

Sense 3
brit, britt -- (minute crustaceans forming food for right whales)
       => copepod, copepod crustacean -- (minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish)