brown
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
biology
cooking
demographics
demography
entomology
food
games
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
natural-sciences
snooker
sports
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-. Doublet of bruin.
Cognates
* Dutch bruin
* German braun
* Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish brun
* Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
* Latin brunneus (“brown”)
* Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
* Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
* West Frisian brún
Inflected forms:
form: browns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: broon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: browner
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more brown
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: brownest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most brown
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: broon
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: browns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: browning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: browned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: browned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: broon
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Northumbria
Senses:
gloss: A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
He wore brown jeans for his birthday.
gloss: One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Black tar heroin.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A copper coin.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
slang
examples: “To save a journey up the town, / A razor lent here for a brown: / But if you think the price too high, / I beg you won’t the razor try.”
I know there are many persons — some who are themselves poor — who 'never turn a beggar from their door,' but always give them a few browns (halfpence) or some scran (broken victuals).
"We've not had any breakfast,—won't you toss us down a brown?"—
That's what they call a penny in the streets of London Town.
gloss: A brown horse or other animal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
countable
ethnic
informal
slur
sometimes
examples: Many browns and blacks are immigrants — some of whom have not yet become naturalized citizens of the United States.
For example, a Brown Asian Caucus emerged at the inaugural National Conference on Asian American Mental Health in 1972 – where Filipinos were joined by Pacific Islanders who also felt marginalized as part of the Asian American/ Pacific Islander (AAPI) umbrella group.
gloss: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae), such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The temptation to have a shot into the brown was great. There was not a head there which was not a big one and the one by himself was not too easy a shot since it is always difficult to shoot when lying in soft snow.
My anger mounted at this, I opened the courtyard door and raised my musket to fire into the brown; I had loaded it with small shot, and if it had gone off that would have been the death of us and the ruin of all of us in the house.
gloss: Having a brown color/colour.
pos: adj
examples: But none of those brown dwarfs were speeding along on a trajectory that would carry them out of the galaxy like “runaway” hypervelocity stars observed by astronomers in the last two decades.
gloss: Gloomy.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
pos: adj
tags: US
capitalized
sometimes
examples: Reminds me of the time they asked me and a group of other Latino, predominantly Mexican, friends for our passports when we tried to go to their [expletive] party a little over a year ago.[…]
The saddest part is that I don’t think they understand why it’s insulting to ask a brown person for a passport.
gloss: Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
pos: adj
tags: US
broadly
capitalized
sometimes
gloss: Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
pos: adj
tags: capitalized
sometimes
examples: I think they sort of realized like, oh, we have Aasif who is a Muslim, an American, brown person, you know, who can sit on that fence between cultures and sort of talk about what it is--what this is from the perspective of being an insider and an outsider at the same time.[…]
I think there is in the sort of South Asian, you know, psyche, a kind of adoration of Western ideals and culture that was sort of implanted into us by the British, you know, and this idea that everything that is Western is superior and better than what we have and what India--you know, what is true to our own culture.
gloss: Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
pos: adj
tags: capitalized
sometimes
examples: I came to deeply embrace anti-racism in slow, sustained increments.
To do so, I had to embrace my own identity as a Brown person -- and understand my own complicity in white supremacy.[…]
I had grown up in an entire Southeast Asian culture that had largely been groomed, indoctrinated and brainwashed into white-centered thinking over some 450 years of colonization by our Western overlords: Spain for almost 400 years, and then the United States of America for nearly 50 years more.
gloss: Not green (environmentally irresponsible); anti-green (against environmental protection).
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: nongreen, antigreen
Tesco and Sainsbury, two of Britain’s biggest retailers, are locked in a fierce battle to prove who is greener. Even BSkyB, the British satellite outpost of the distinctly brown Murdoch empire, has declared itself “carbon-neutral.”
gloss: To become brown.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Fry the onions until they brown.
The chicken was browning nicely, the skin beginning to crisp and take on the toasty tones of oiled wood.
Don't microwave your milk too long
It browns and bubbles over
gloss: poop.
pos: verb
examples: i've just browned myself.
gloss: To cook something until it becomes brown.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […]
gloss: To tan.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
gloss: To make brown or dusky.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
gloss: To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It is mixed uniformly with olive oil, and rubbed upon the iron slightly heated, which is afterwards exposed to the air, till the wished-for degree of browning is produced.
gloss: To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
ethnic
intransitive
offensive
slang
slur
transitive
usually
examples: the browning of America
Related words: auburn
brunet
burnet
mahogany
tawny
golding
Derived words: anti-brown
Arran brown
Asian brown flycatcher
Banks' brown
big brown bat
Bismarck brown
black and brown
Boston brown bread
brownable
brown adipose tissue
brown ale
brown alga
brown ammonia
brown anole
brown argus
brown as a berry
brown asbestos
brownback
brown bag
brown-bag
brown-bagger
brown bagging
brown bag test
brown bar
brown bastard
brown beaksedge
brown bean
brown bear
brown bent
brown bentgrass
Brown Bess
Brown Betty
brown-bill
brownbill
brown-billed scythebill
brown bits
brown bomber
brown boobook
brown bottle flu
brown box
brown box crab
brown bread
brown-brown
brown bullhead
brown butter
brown catshark
brown cheese
brown cloud
brown clover
brown coal
Browncoat
brown coati
brown cow
brown crab
brown creeper
brown dwarf
brown earth
browned off
brown envelope journalism
brown envelope syndrome
brownette
browneye
brown eye
brown-eyed
brown-eyed soul
brown-eyed Susan
brownface
brown falcon
brown fat
brownfield
brown gargle
Brown George
brown goods
brown goshawk
brown-haired
brown hairstreak
brown hare
brown hawk
brownhead
brown hemp
brown heroin
brown holland
brown honeyeater
brown hydrogen
brown hyena
brownie
brownification
brown inca
brownish
brown job
brown joke
brown jolly
brown king crab
brown kingfisher
brown lacewing
brown leaf
brown leaf spot
brown lung
brownly
brown mahogany
brown marmorated stink bug
brown mint
brown mustard
brownness
brownnose
brown-nose
brown-noser
brown noser
brown note
brown ocean effect
brown ochre
brown onion
brown oriole
brown out
brownout
brown-out
brown owl
brown palm civet
brown paper
brown paper bag party
brown paper bag test
brown patch
brown pelican
brown-point shield skin longirostris
brown pound
brown powder
brown power
brown priest
brownprint
brown rat
brown recluse
brown recluse spider
brown rice
brown rock chat
brown rosin paper
brown rot
brown-rumped minivet
brown sahib
brown sauce
brown seaweed
brown shark
Brown Shirt
brown shirt
Brownshirt
brown shoe
brown shower
brown shrike
brown shrimp
brownskin
brown snake
brown soft scale
brown spar
brown spot
brownspotted
brown stew
brown stew chicken
brown sticker
brownstone
brown study
brown sugar
Brown Swiss
brown-tailed rock chat
brown-tail moth
brown tang
brown teal
brown thrasher
brown thumb
brown tinamou
browntop
brown trout
brown up
brownware
brownwash
brown water
brown-water navy
brown Windsor soup
brown woolly monkey
brownwort
browny
bush brown
Cappagh brown
Cappah brown
Cassel brown
chocolate-brown
code brown
Colorado brown stain
common brown
common brown cup
common brown earwig
De Kay's brown snake
do it brown
do it up brown
do someone brown
done brown
embrown
garnet brown
golden brown
golden-brown alga
great brown kingfisher
hair-brown
hash brown
hash-brown
hashed brown
hash browns
hashbrowns
hash-browns
hashed browns
Himalayan brown bear
Hobart brown
hot brown
indigo brown
Kassel brown
king brown
King Island brown thornbill
light brown apple moth
little brown bat
little brown dove
little brown fucking machine
little brown job
little brown jug
Mars brown
meadow brown
Mexican brown
mono-brown
mousy brown
mummy brown
Natal brown
nigger-brown
no brown in town
nonbrown
northern brown argus
northern brown bandicoot
southern brown bandicoot
North Island brown kiwi
nut-brown
nut-brown butter
Okarito brown kiwi
overbrown
plain brown wrapper
prebrowned
Pullman brown
red-brown
reddish-brown
red-green-brown alliance
saddle brown
Sanford's brown
Sanford's brown lemur
shit-brown
shouldered brown
small brown crow
Spanish brown
spice brown
stately bush brown
sub-brown dwarf
Sudan brown
sunbrowned
take someone to brown town
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
toffee-brown
tree brown
unbrown
unbrowned
Vandyke brown
wall brown
wood brown
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: bruin
lang: Akan
word: ahaban dada
lang: Akan
word: ntokowa ntokowa
lang: Albanian
word: bojëkafe
lang: Southern Altai
word: кӱреҥ
roman: küreŋ
lang: Arabic
word: بُنِّيّ
roman: bunniyy
lang: Arabic
word: أَسْمَر
roman: ʔasmar
lang: Arabic
word: بُنِّي
roman: bunni
lang: Arabic
word: قهوي
roman: qahwi
lang: Arabic
word: بني
roman: binni
lang: Aragonese
word: marrón
lang: Aragonese
word: pardo
lang: Armenian
word: շագանակագույն
roman: šaganakaguyn
lang: Armenian
word: դարչնագույն
roman: darčʻnaguyn
lang: Armenian
word: սրճագույն
roman: srčaguyn
lang: Armenian
word: կարիչնիվի
roman: karičʻnivi
lang: Aromanian
word: murnu
lang: Assamese
word: মটীয়া
roman: motia
lang: Asturian
word: marrón
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qəhvəyi
lang: Azerbaijani
word: darçını
lang: Bashkir
word: көрән
roman: körən
lang: Basque
word: marroi
lang: Belarusian
word: кары́чневы
roman: karýčnjevy
lang: Bislama
word: braon
lang: Breton
word: gell
lang: Bulgarian
word: кафя́в цвят
roman: kafjáv cvjat
lang: Bulgarian
word: кафя́в
roman: kafjáv
lang: Burmese
word: အညို
roman: a.nyui
lang: Catalan
word: marró
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎤᏬᏗᎨᎢ
roman: uwodigei
lang: Chichewa
word: bulawuni
lang: Chickasaw
word: lakna
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 啡色
roman: fe¹ sik¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 棕色
roman: zōngsè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 褐色
roman: hèsè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 咖啡色
roman: kāfēisè
lang: Cornish
word: gell
lang: Cornish
word: gorm
lang: Montagnais
word: katshishtemauaput
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: qoñur
lang: Czech
word: hněď
lang: Danish
word: brun
lang: Dutch
word: bruin
lang: Esperanto
word: bruno
lang: Estonian
word: pruun
lang: Faroese
word: brúnt
lang: Fijian
word: dravu
lang: Finnish
word: ruskea
lang: French
word: marron
lang: French
word: brun
lang: Old French
word: brun
lang: Old Frisian
word: brūn
lang: Galician
word: marrón
lang: Galician
word: brun
lang: Galician
word: pardo
lang: Galician
word: castaño
lang: Georgian
word: ყავისფერი
roman: q̇avisperi
lang: Georgian
word: წაბლისფერი
roman: c̣ablisperi
lang: Georgian
word: მურა
roman: mura
lang: Georgian
word: უნაბისფერი
roman: unabisperi
lang: Georgian
word: ჟღალისფერი
roman: žɣalisperi
lang: Georgian
word: წენგოსფერი
roman: c̣engosperi
lang: German
word: Braun
lang: German
word: Bruun
lang: Old High German
word: brūn
lang: Greek
word: καστανό
roman: kastanó
lang: Greek
word: καφέ
roman: kafé
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὀρφνός
roman: orphnós
lang: Greenlandic
word: kajortoq
lang: Hebrew
word: חוּם
roman: khúm
lang: Hiligaynon
word: abelyána
lang: Hindi
word: भूरा
roman: bhūrā
lang: Hopi
word: tasikpu
lang: Hungarian
word: barna
lang: Icelandic
word: brúnn
lang: Ido
word: bruna
lang: Igbo
word: nchara
lang: Indonesian
word: cokelat
lang: Ingush
word: бора
roman: bora
lang: Iranun
word: maredtem
lang: Irish
word: donn
lang: Italian
word: marrone
lang: Italian
word: castano
lang: Japanese
word: 茶色
roman: chairo
lang: Japanese
word: 褐色
roman: kasshoku
lang: Kaitag
word: бера
roman: bera
lang: Kalmyk
word: күрң
roman: kürñ
lang: Kankanaey
word: kaman-nangu
lang: Kapampangan
word: komanggi
lang: Kapampangan
word: makomanggi
lang: Karachay-Balkar
word: къонгур
roman: qoñur
lang: Karaim
word: къахъвэ рэнги
lang: Khakas
word: хоор
roman: xoor
lang: Khmer
word: ពណ៌ត្នោត
roman: poa tnaot
lang: Khoekhoe
word: ǂgama
lang: Kongo
word: maron
lang: Korean
word: 갈색
roman: galsaek
lang: Kumyk
word: къонгур
roman: qoñur
lang: Central Kurdish
word: قاوەیی
roman: qaweyî
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: çakar
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: qehweyî
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: qehwerengî
lang: Kyrgyz
word: күрөң
roman: küröŋ
lang: Lakota
word: ǧí
lang: Latgalian
word: bryuns
lang: Latin
word: aquilus
lang: Latvian
word: brūns
lang: Lingala
word: maron
lang: Lithuanian
word: rudas
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: maron
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: brun
lang: Low German
word: Bruun
lang: Low German
word: Brun
lang: Luhya
word: ekawa
lang: Macedonian
word: кафеав
roman: kafeav
lang: Macedonian
word: браон
roman: braon
lang: Malagasy
word: volontany
lang: Malagasy
word: fiana
lang: Malay
word: perang
lang: Malay
word: coklat
lang: Malayalam
word: തവിട്ട്
roman: taviṭṭŭ
lang: Maltese
word: kannella
lang: Māori
word: hāuratea
lang: Māori
word: pākā kōrito
lang: Māori
word: pākā
lang: Maranao
word: malimba
lang: Marshallese
word: būrawūn
lang: Central Sierra Miwok
word: tatát·-i-
lang: Mongolian
word: бор
roman: bor
lang: Muong
word: nu
lang: Navajo
word: dibéłchíʼí
lang: Navajo
word: yishtłizh
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: brun
lang: Occitan
word: marron
lang: Occitan
word: marrona
lang: Occitan
word: castanh
lang: Occitan
word: castanha
lang: Ojibwe
word: ozaawaanzan
lang: Old English
word: brūn
lang: Old Saxon
word: brūn
lang: Oromo
word: magaala
lang: Ossetian
word: морӕ
roman: moræ
lang: Pashto
word: بور
roman: bore
lang: Pashto
word: نسواري
roman: naswâri
lang: Dari
word: نَسْوَارِی
roman: naswārī
lang: Dari
word: قَهْوَهایِ
roman: qahwa-yī
lang: Iranian Persian
word: قَهْوِهای
roman: ġahve-i
lang: Polish
word: brąz
lang: Portuguese
word: castanho
lang: Portuguese
word: marrom
lang: Rapa Nui
word: kāpē
lang: Romanian
word: brun
lang: Romanian
word: maro
lang: Russian
word: кори́чневый
roman: koríčnevyj
lang: Russian
word: бу́рый
roman: búryj
lang: Samoan
word: enaena
lang: Sardinian
word: castàngiu
lang: Scots
word: broon
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: donn
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ruadh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сме̏ђ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бра̏он
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: мр̏к
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: smȅđ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: brȁon
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mȑk
lang: Shona
word: mbise
lang: Shor
word: кӱрең
roman: küreň
lang: Slovak
word: hnedá
lang: Slovene
word: rjava
lang: Somali
word: boodhe
lang: Spanish
word: marrón
lang: Spanish
word: café
lang: Spanish
word: canelo
lang: Spanish
word: carmelita
lang: Spanish
word: carmelito
lang: Spanish
word: castaño
lang: Spanish
word: pardo
lang: Spanish
word: moreno
lang: Spanish
word: bronceado
lang: Spanish
word: moreno
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: broin
lang: Swahili
word: kahawia
lang: Swazi
word: nsúndvu
lang: Swedish
word: brun
lang: Tagalog
word: kayumanggi
lang: Tagalog
word: malakalaw
lang: Tahitian
word: 'ina'ina
lang: Tajik
word: каҳвагӣ
roman: kahvagi
lang: Tajik
word: қаҳваранг
roman: qahvarang
lang: Tarifit
word: aqehwi
lang: Thai
word: สีน้ำตาล
roman: sǐi-nám-dtaan
lang: Tibetan
word: རྒྱ་སྨུག
lang: Tibetan
word: སྨུག་པོ
lang: Tigrinya
word: ቡናዊ
roman: bunawi
lang: Tofa
word: һүреӈ
roman: hüreň
lang: Tok Pisin
word: braun
lang: Tok Pisin
word: braunpela
lang: Tongan
word: palauni
lang: Tongan
word: melomelo
lang: Turkish
word: kahverengi
lang: Turkish
word: kongur
lang: Turkish
word: konur
lang: Tuvan
word: хүрең
roman: xüreñ
lang: Udmurt
word: курень
roman: kureń
lang: Ukrainian
word: кори́чневий
roman: korýčnevyj
lang: Urdu
word: بُھورا
roman: bhūrā
lang: Urum
word: кӱрен
lang: Urum
word: конур
lang: Uyghur
word: قوڭۇر
roman: qo'ngur
lang: Uzbek
word: jigarrang
lang: Vietnamese
word: nâu
lang: Volapük
word: braun
lang: Volapük
word: blon
lang: Welsh
word: brown
lang: Yakut
word: күрэҥ
roman: küreŋ
lang: Yoruba
word: pupa