Definitions for Brown

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Brown brown

Spelling: [broun]

IPA: /braʊn/

Brown is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in Brown (bnorw).

Definitions for Brown

noun

1. a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
2. Offensive. a person whose skin has a light- or dark-brown pigmentation.
3. Charles Brockden [brok-duh n] /ˈbrɒk dən/ (Show IPA), 1771–1810, U.S. novelist.
4. Clifford ("Brownie") 1930–56, U.S. jazz trumpeter.
5. Edmund Gerald, Jr ("Jerry") born 1938, U.S. politician: governor of California 1975–83.
6. Herbert Charles, 1912–2004, U.S. chemist, born in England: Nobel Prize 1979.
7. James Nathaniel ("Jimmy") born 1936, U.S. football player and actor.
8. John ("Old Brown of Osawatomie") 1800–59, U.S. abolitionist: leader of the attack at Harpers Ferry, where he was captured, tried for treason, and hanged.
9. Margaret Wise, 1910–52, U.S. author noted for early-childhood books.
10. Olympia, 1835–1926, U.S. women's-rights activist and Universalist minister: first American woman ordained by a major church.
11. Robert, 1773–1858, Scottish botanist.

Idioms

1. browned off, Slang. angry; fed up.
2. do it up brown, Informal. to do thoroughly:

adjective

1. of the color brown.
2. (of animals) having skin, fur, hair, or feathers of that color.
3. sunburned or tanned.
4. Often Offensive. (of human beings) having the skin naturally pigmented a brown color.

Verb phrases

1. brown out, to subject to a brownout:

verb (used with or without object)

1. to make or become brown.
2. to fry, sauté, or scorch slightly in cooking:

Origin of Brown

before 1000; Middle English; Old English brūn; cognate with Dutch bruin, German braun, Old Norse brūnn; akin to Lithuanian brúnas brown

Examples for Brown

They became so brown and shriveled that they looked like walking beef jerky with New York accents.

Actually his brown eyes rested on the face of the girl above him.

In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.

He was smoking his big briar and drinking a huge glass of brown beer.

“If you look at the studies, most of them stop after six months, one year, two years,” brown says.

“ADD [Attention Deficit Disorder] is just a euphemistic way of saying, ‘I have limits,’” brown writes.

brown them on one side, then turn them and brown them on the other side.

The Supreme Court eventually stepped in and ended legal segregation in the landmark 1954 decision, brown v. Board of Education.

Then wipe the meat carefully and brown it on all sides in the fat.

It was brown as to crust, and flaky and light as to interior.