Brighton

[ brahyt-n ]

noun

1. a city in East Sussex, in SE England: seashore resort.
2. a city near Melbourne in S Victoria, in SE Australia.
3. a town in central Colorado.

Brighton

/ ˈbraɪtən /

noun

1. a coastal resort in S England, in Brighton and Hove unitary authority, East Sussex: patronized by the Prince Regent, who had the Royal Pavilion built (1782); seat of the University of Sussex (1966) and the University of Brighton (1992). Pop: 134 293 (2001)

Example Sentences

A month later, she burned all her clothes and ran away to the seaside town of Brighton.

From MIT Technology Review

The mother-son duo first headed to a King Soopers store in Brighton.

From Washington Post

It has lost to bad teams, including Fulham, Burnley and Brighton.

From FiveThirtyEight

Though she was born in Los Angeles, Celeste, whose father is Jamaican and mother British, was raised in Brighton, UK, and currently resides in London, England.

From Essence.com

She thought, It’s a windy night, I know—go back to bed, Brighton.

From Outside Online

When we moved to Brighton Beach, I was 13 and a half and only a few houses away lived the one and only Buddy Rich.

From The Daily Beast

And there may be no better place in the U.S. to experience that side of Russia than Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, NY.

From The Daily Beast

In fact, the Brighton branch is being set up by Anita and Stuart Balkham, a married couple who live in Sussex.

From The Daily Beast

Menkes was born in 1943 to a Jewish lawyer father and mother and raised in the countryside in Brighton, England.

From The Daily Beast

My present wife was injured and her husband killed in the 1984 IRA bomb attack on Thatcher at the Grand Hotel Brighton.

From The Daily Beast

A little to the north of Brighton is Lewes, the county town of Sussex, rich in relics of antiquity.

From Project Gutenberg

No doubt all the spirit of progress in the vicinity has been absorbed by the city of Brighton, less than a dozen miles away.

From Project Gutenberg

I live not unpleasantly, in a round of Ministerial dinners; but I am impatient to see my white house at Brighton.

From Project Gutenberg

I pity them both, and I pity you too, for at this time of year Brighton must be a damned place.

From Project Gutenberg

Educational establishments are numerous, and include Brighton College, which ranks high among English public schools.

From Project Gutenberg