What does Auburn mean?

Definitions for Auburn
ˈɔ bərnauburn

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. auburnadjective

    (of hair) colored a moderate reddish-brown

    "auburn hair"

Wiktionary

  1. auburnadjective

    Of a reddish-brown colour.

  2. Etymology: Early Modern English auburn "brown, reddish brown" from aubourne, abron, abroune, abrune "light brown, yellowish brown, blond", alteration (due to conflation with brun "brown") of earlier auborne "yellowish-white, flaxen" from auborne, alborne "blond, flaxen, off-white" from Medieval Latin alburnus "whitish" from Latin albus "white". More at albino, brown

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  1. auburn

    Auburn is a reddish-brown or golden-brown color, most commonly used to describe hair color. The term may also refer to Auburn University, a public research university located in Auburn, Alabama, USA.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Auburnadjective

    flaxen-colored

  2. Auburnadjective

    reddish brown

  3. Etymology: [OE. auburne blonde, OF. alborne, auborne, fr. LL. alburnus whitish, fr. L. albus white. Cf. Alburn.]

Wikidata

  1. Auburn

    Auburn is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is the largest city in eastern Alabama with a 2012 population of 56,908. It is a principal city of the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Area. The Auburn-Opelika, AL MSA with a population of 140,247, along with the Columbus, GA-AL MSA and Tuskegee, Alabama, comprises the greater Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL CSA, a region home to 456,564 residents. Auburn is a college town and is the home of Auburn University. Auburn has been marked in recent years by rapid growth, and is currently the fastest growing metropolitan area in Alabama and the nineteenth-fastest growing metro area in the United States since 1990. U.S. News has ranked Auburn among its top ten list of best places to live in United States for the year 2009. The city's unofficial nickname is “The Loveliest Village On The Plains,” taken from a line in the poem The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith: “Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain...”

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Auburn

    aw′burn, adj. reddish brown. [The old meaning was a light yellow, or lightish hue; Low L. alburnus, whitish—L. albus, white.]

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  1. auburn

    Song lyrics by auburn -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by auburn on the Lyrics.com website.

Etymology and Origins

  1. Auburn

    From the Anglo-Saxon Auld Bourne, old bourn, or stream.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. AUBURN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Auburn is ranked #94730 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Auburn surname appeared 193 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Auburn.

    89.6% or 173 total occurrences were White.
    4.6% or 9 total occurrences were Black.
    3.1% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Auburn in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Auburn in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Auburn in a Sentence

  1. Bruce Pearl:

    Listen, when you win, folks are worried you’re going to leave, when you’re losing, they’re packing your bags. … Look, Auburn is a fabulous place and it’s been the best place that I’ve ever been where I can develop players. It’s a small college town, kids come here to grind, they’re around other student-athletes that are trying to grind and we’re about an hour and half from Atlanta. As you know Jay, there are a lot of good players in Atlanta.

  2. Dolly Parton:

    We wanted it to be someone that kind of was described in the song, with auburn hair, ivory skin, the emerald green eyes, which she had all of that, all she had to do was put on this beautiful red hair and she was the most beautiful Jolene you could ever, ever get.

  3. Richard Spencers:

    They think they have shut this down, but they haven't, i will give a speech on their campus. It is a public place. I think Auburn University is naive and has totally misunderstood who I am if they think that I am going to politely back out of this. I will be there 100 percent.

  4. Bo Nix:

    Obviously, its a dream come true, ive always wanted to play quarterback at Auburn. Its a goal of mine that Ive had for a long, long time, as far as I can remember. All the way back to throwing the football in the backyard with my dad, I wanted to play quarterback at Auburn. So it was just an awesome moment. You honestly couldnt write it any better.

  5. Muhidin Libah:

    The life was too speedy, no one had a minute to talk to you, i called a friend in Auburn, Maine, and he said, 'this is a little better.'.

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