Brown

Quick meaning: Brown is a noun meaning (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.

Meaning

(countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.

More Meanings

1. (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
2. (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
3. A brown horse or other animal.
4. (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
5. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae), such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
6. (sometimes capitalised, countable, informal, ethnic slur) A person of mostly Latin American (or Latino), Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, and sometimes Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or rarely Native American descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto, or biracial appearance.
7. (slang, archaic, countable) A copper coin.

Example Sentences

He wore brown jeans for his birthday.

The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.

[…] browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish.

Many browns and blacks are immigrants — some of whom have not yet become naturalized citizens of the United States.

Word Forms

• browns
• broon
• browner
• brownest
• browning
• browned

Synonyms for brown

Depending on context, synonyms include antigreen, embrown, brownify, chromatic, brownish, brownness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brownness, colored, chromatic, saute, tan, brn.

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