brown

Speech parts

1. brown - Noun

2. brown - Adjective

3. brown - Verb

5. brown - Adjective Satellite

6. Brown - Proper noun

Meaning

Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.

A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.

To make brown or dusky.

To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.

To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.

To become brown.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Phrases with the word

Derivatives

Examples

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie. Rodney Dangerfield

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. Ernest Hemingway

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. William Congreve

At night all cats are brown. Portuguese Proverb

Never wear a brown hat in Friesland. Dutch Proverb

Staying near the anthill turned the antelope brown. Acholi Proverb

Close letter words and terms