Search Result:brown
KK Pronunciation
〔 braUn 〕
Pronunciation
〔 braun 〕
Overview of noun brown
The noun brown has 4 senses
- brown, brownness -- (an orange of low brightness and saturation)
- Brown, Robert Brown -- (Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858))
- Brown, John Brown -- (abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859))
- Brown University, Brown -- (a university in Rhode Island)
Overview of verb brown
The verb brown has 2 senses
- brown -- (fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan")
- embrown, brown -- (make brown in color; "the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard")
Overview of adj brown
The adj brown has 2 senses
- brown, brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown -- (of a color similar to that of wood or earth)
- brown, browned -- ((of skin) deeply suntanned)