brown
IPA: brˈaʊn
noun
- (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
- (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
- (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
- (slang, archaic, countable) A copper coin.
- A brown horse or other animal.
- (sometimes capitalised, countable, informal) A person of Latino, Middle Eastern or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).
- (entomology) Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
- (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
- (hunting, as "the brown") A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
- (countable) A surname.
- An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname.
- An Irish surname of Anglo-Norman origin, a translation of de Brún.
- A locale in the United States.
- An unincorporated community in California; named for hotelier George Brown.
- An unincorporated community in Louisiana; named for landowner George W. Brown.
- An unincorporated community in Oklahoma; named for postmaster Robert H. Brown.
- An unincorporated community in West Virginia; named for early settler John Brown.
- A ghost town in Nevada.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Brown Township.
- Brown University.
- Alternative letter-case form of brown (“person with a dark complexion”) [(countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.]
verb
- (intransitive) To become brown.
- (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
- (intransitive, transitive) To tan.
- (transitive) To make brown or dusky.
- (transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
- (demography, transitive, intransitive, slang, ethnic slur, usually derogatory, offensive) To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
adjective
- Having a brown colour.
- (obsolete) Gloomy.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
- (US) Latino
- (of Asians) South Asian
- (of East-Eurasian ancestry) Southeast Asian
- (chiefly US, often Canada and UK) Alternative letter-case form of brown (“of a dark complexion”) [Having a brown colour.]
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Examples of "brown" in Sentences
- -- So this is what thou calls a brown hood, is it?
- But they put the tamarind on it which they call brown sauce so it was waaaaay too sweet.
- Rice-unrefined, what you call brown rice-restore normal condition, good health to MCC gene.
- In Connective Tissue the brown is the bizarre world stuff and the bluish tinted work is the “real world” (or is it?).
- The term brown bear is commonly used to refer to the members of this species found in coastal areas where salmon is the primary food source.
- One of the big criticisms of Superfund been not what has happens at the biggest sites, but what happens at smaller sites, what we refer to as brown fields.
- The wide acceptation of the term brown has occasioned much confusion in the naming of colours, since broken colours in which red, &c. predominate, have been improperly called brown.
- Dick remained the same frank merry fellow as ever; and even when there was a thick crop growing on his cheeks and chin, which he called brown mustard and cress, he was as full of boyish fun as ever.
- Now, for helicopters, which always fly low in the dangerous areas down there, landing is a particularly difficult thing because we have the situation, which we call brown out, which particularly in Afghanistan, dust is kicked up and can really obscure your vision when you're trying to feel those last few feet and dropping a helicopter in the last few feet can cause significant damage there to the whole thing.
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