brown
Meaning of brown
adjective
- of a colour produced by mixing red, yellow, and blue, as of dark wood or rich soil.
an old brown coat
she had warm brown eyes
- (of a person) dark-skinned or suntanned.
his face was brown from the sun
- brown colour or pigment.
the brown of his eyes
a pair of boots in brown
the print is rich with velvety browns
- a brown thing, in particular the brown ball in snooker.
- a satyrid butterfly, which typically has brown wings with small eyespots.
- another term for coloured (sense 2 of the noun).
- make or become brown, typically by cooking.
a skillet in which food has been browned
grill the pizza until the cheese has browned
Old English brūn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bruin and German braun .
Information about brown
- The plural form of brown is: browns.
- Languages in which brown is used:
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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:
Meaning browned:
Meaning brownness:
Meaning Brown:
Meaning Brown University:
Meaning a temperate shrub or small tree with broad leaves, bearing prominent male catkins in spring and round hard-shelled edible nuts in autumn:
Meaning having dark brown hair (typically used of a woman):
Meaning of or like a mouse:
Meaning a reddish-brown colour associated particularly with monochrome photographs of the 19th and early 20th centuries:
Meaning hard reddish-brown timber from a tropical tree, used for quality furniture:
Meaning a natural pigment resembling but darker than ochre, normally dark yellowish-brown in colour ( raw umber ) or dark brown when roasted ( burnt umber ):
Meaning a pale sandy fawn colour:
Meaning (of a person or their body) in good physical shape with well-developed muscles:
Meaning of a yellowish-brown colour:
Meaning a young deer in its first year:
Meaning a small baked unleavened cake, typically crisp, flat, and sweet:
Meaning a large, long-necked ungulate mammal of arid country, with long slender legs, broad cushioned feet, and either one or two humps on the back. Camels can survive for long periods without food or drink, :
Meaning sugar or syrup heated until it turns brown, used as a flavouring or colouring for food or drink or combined with butter or cream to form a thick, sweet sauce:
Meaning a fungal growth that typically takes the form of a domed cap on a stalk, with gills on the underside of the cap:
Meaning a broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inwards:
Meaning a European plant of the dock family, with arrow-shaped leaves that are used in salads and cooking for their acidic flavour:
Meaning of a dull greyish-brown colour:
Meaning (especially of a domestic animal) brownish or tawny with streaks of other colour:
Meaning (of hair) of a reddish-brown colour:
Meaning of an orange-brown or yellowish-brown colour:
Meaning like copper, especially in colour:
Meaning a glossy hard brown edible nut which develops within a bristly case and which may be roasted and eaten:
Meaning a yellowish-brown alloy of copper with up to one-third tin:
Meaning reddish brown in colour:
Meaning (of a person) having brown or darkened skin after exposure to the sun:
Meaning having reddened or inflamed skin as result of overexposure to the sun:
Meaning attractively and evenly suntanned; tanned:
Meaning with little or no light:
Meaning dark-complexioned:
Meaning darkish in colour:
Meaning burn (something) superficially or lightly:
Meaning burn or scorch the surface of (something) with a sudden, intense heat:
Meaning fasten or close securely:
Meaning cook (food) using a grill:
Meaning cook or brown (food, especially bread or cheese) by exposure to a grill, fire, or other source of radiant heat:
Meaning cook (food) on a barbecue:
Meaning cook (food) in hot fat or oil, typically in a shallow pan:
Meaning cook (food) by dry heat without direct exposure to a flame, typically in an oven:
Translation of brown
- Spanish: castaño, marrón, pardo, dorado, dorada, parda, dorarse, dorar, tostar
- Portuguese: marrom, castanho, tostar
- French: brun, marron, brunir, dorer
- German: Braun, braun, bräunen, rösten, anbräunen
- Italian: marrone, castano, abbronzare, rosolare
Words that rhyme with brown
Brown, MrBrown, MrsBrown, embrown, imbrown, nutbrown, overbrown, rebrown, unbrown, Crown, archcrown, baldcrown, becrown, copplecrown, cropplecrown, crown, decrown, discrown, encrown, overcrown, recrown, uncrown, yellowcrown, bedrown, drown, afrown, frown, outfrown, overfrown, begrown, forgrown, grown, homegrown, ingrown, intergrown, misgrown, mossgrown, outgrown, overgrown, regrown, undergrown, ungrown, unoutgrown, upgrown, downthrown, misthrown, outthrown, overthrown, preoverthrown, thrown
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