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Definition of 'brown'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) brown
a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.

2.  brown
a person whose skin has a dusky or light brown pigmentation.

3. (adj.) brown
of the color brown.

4.  brown
having skin of this color.

5.  brown
sunburned or tanned.

6. (v.i.) brown
to make or become brown.

7.  brown
to fry, sauté, roast, etc., to a brown color.

8. (n.) Brown
John (“Old Brown of Osawatomie”), 1800–59, U.S. abolitionist: leader of the attack at Harpers Ferry.

9.  Brown
Olympia, 1835–1926, U.S. women's-rights activist and Universalist minister.

Definition of 'brown'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) brown, brownness
an orange of low brightness and saturation

2. (noun) Brown, Robert Brown
Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)

3. (noun) Brown, John Brown
abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)

4. (adj) Brown University, Brown
a university in Rhode Island

5. (adj) brown, brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown
of a color similar to that of wood or earth

6. (verb) brown, browned
(of skin) deeply suntanned

7. (verb) brown
fry in a pan until it changes color
"brown the meat in the pan"

8. (verb) embrown, brown
make brown in color
"the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard"

Definition of 'brown'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) brown
being the color of chocolate or coffee
brown hair/eyes; a light/dark brown

Definition of 'brown'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) brown
a dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue

2. brown
of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow

3. (verb) brown
to make brown or dusky

4. (verb) brown
to make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour

5. (verb) brown
to give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface

6. (verb) brown
to become brown

Translation of 'brown'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: of a dark colour between red and yellow brown paint; Her eyes are brown.
Afrikaans: bruin	Arabic: بنّـي	Bulgarian: кафяв
Brazilian: marrom/castanho	Czech: hnědý	German: braun
Danish: brun	Greek: καφέ	Spanish: marrón
Estonian: pruun	Farsi: قهوهای	Finnish: ruskea
French: marron; brun	Hebrew: חוּם	Hindi: भूरा
Croatian: smeđ	Hungarian: barna	Indonesian: warna coklat
Italian: marrone, castano	Japanese: 褐色の	Korean: 갈색의
Lithuanian: rudas	Latvian: brūns	Malay: coklat
Dutch: bruin	Norwegian: brun	Polish: brązowy
Persian: قهوهای	Pashto: نصواری	Portuguese: castanho
Romanian: maro; brun	Russian: коричневый; карий	Slovak: hnedý
Slovenian: rjav	Serbian: braon	Swedish: brun
Thai: (สี) น้ำตาล	Turkish: kahverengi	Taiwanese: 褐色的
Ukrainian: коричневий; карий	Urdu: بھورا ، براؤن	Vietnamese: nâu
Chinese: 褐色的
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