Brown

Meaning of Brown

noun
  1. A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
    The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
  2. One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
  3. Black tar heroin.
  4. A copper coin.
  5. A brown horse or other animal.
  6. (sometimes capitalised) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
  7. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).
  8. Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
  9. A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
verb
  1. To become brown.
    Fry the onions until they brown.
  2. To cook something until it becomes brown.
    Brown the onions in a large frying pan.
  3. To tan.
    Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
  4. To make brown or dusky.
  5. To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
  6. (usually derogatory) To turn progressively more Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
    the browning of America
  7. To treat with deference, or respect.
adjective
  1. Having a brown colour.
  2. Gloomy.
  3. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.

Information about Brown

  • The plural form of Brown is: Browns.
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Hyphenation of Brown

Brown

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • Brown is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Brown synonyms

Meaning brownish:

brownish

Meaning browned:

browned

Meaning brownness:

brownness

Words that rhyme with Brown

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