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Definition brown

Etymology

From Middle English broun, from Old English br?n (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-Germanic *br?naz (compare West Frisian brún, Dutch bruin, German braun), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erH- (compare Ancient Greek ????? (phrún?), ?????? (phrûnos, “toad”); Latin brunneus (“brown”)), compare Lithuanian b??ras (“brown”), Sanskrit ????? (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)).

Noun

brown (countable and uncountable, plural browns)

  1. (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
  2. (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
  3. (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
  4. (slang, archaic, countable) A copper coin.
  5. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
  6. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).
  7. (entomology) Certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.

Adjective

brown (comparative browner or more brown, superlative brownest or most brown)

  1. Having a brown colour.
  2. (obsolete) Gloomy.
  3. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
    1. (US) Latino
    2. (of Asians) South Asian
    3. (of East Asians) Southeast Asian

Verb

brown (third-person singular simple present browns, present participle browning, simple past and past participle browned)

  1. (intransitive) To become brown.
  2. (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
  3. (intransitive, transitive) To tan.
  4. (transitive) To make brown or dusky.
  5. (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 Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
  • (transitive) To treat with deference, or respect.

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