brine
Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.
Example
“Do you want a can of tuna in oil or in brine?”
Other meanings
The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.
Synonyms
- seawater
- saltwater
A kind of
- water
Kinds of brine
- red tide
Related words
- brinicle
- brinish
- briny
- brine fly
- brineless
- brine shrimp
- leach brine
- brine lake
- brine pool
Word history
From Old English "brīne".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “brine” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.