Noun
- 1. brown, brownness, chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
- usage: an orange of low brightness and saturation
- 2. Brown, Robert Brown
- usage: Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
- 3. Brown, John Brown
- usage: abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)
- 4. Brown University, Brown
- usage: a university in Rhode Island
Verb
- 1. brown, cook
- usage: fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan"
- 2. embrown, brown, color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
- usage: make brown in color; "the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard"
Adjective
- 1. brown, brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown, chromatic (vs. achromatic)
- usage: of a color similar to that of wood or earth
- 2. brown, browned, brunet (vs. blond), brunette
- usage: (of skin) deeply suntanned
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