Meaning of brown | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
   countable
2. Alternative letter-case form of brown (“person with a dark complexion”).
   alt-of
3. A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
   countable, uncountable
4. An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname.
   countable, uncountable
5. Any of a group of colors between red and yellow in hue that are medium to low in lightness and low to moderate in saturation.
6. One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
   countable
7. An Irish surname of Anglo-Norman origin, a translation of de Brún.
   countable, uncountable
8. To make angry or irritated.
9. Black tar heroin.
   uncountable
10. mess; bitch (something annoying)
11. A locale in the United States.
    countable, uncountable
12. An unincorporated community in California; named for hotelier George Brown.
    countable, uncountable
13. To make food turn brown on the surface, usually by cooking at a high temperature in a little fat.
14. A copper coin.
    archaic, countable, slang
15. An unincorporated community in Louisiana; named for landowner George W. Brown.
    countable, uncountable
16. to make or become brown. bruineer, bruin maak, bruin word يَسْمَرُّ، يَتَسَفَّعُ правя нещо кафяво tornar marrom zhnědnout, zbarvit hnědě bräunen gøre brun; blive brun ροδίζω κτ., αποκτώ καφέ χρώμα poner moreno pruunistama, pruunistuma قهوه ای کردن ruskistaa brunir לְהַשחִים भूरा बनाना या बनना potamniti barnít, (le)barnul mencoklatkan rendere bruno; brunire 褐色にする 갈색이 되다 (nu)rudinti, (nu)rusti []brūnināt; iedegt mencoklatkan bruinenbrune, steke zbrązowi(e)ć نصوای کول acastanhar a (se) colora î...
17. A brown horse or other animal.
    countable, uncountable
18. An unincorporated community in Oklahoma; named for postmaster Robert H. Brown.
    countable, uncountable
19. castaño, café, carmelita; [skin] moreno-a.
20. 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.
    capitalized, countable, ethnic, informal, slur, sometimes
21. An unincorporated community in West Virginia; named for early settler John Brown.
    countable, uncountable
22. Of the color brown.
23. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae), such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
    countable, uncountable
24. A ghost town in Nevada.
    countable, uncountable
25. Having a brownish or dark skin color.
26. A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
    countable, informal, uncountable
27. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Brown Township.
    countable, uncountable
28. Deeply suntanned.
29. A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
    countable, uncountable
30. Brown University.
    countable, uncountable
31. To make or become brown.
32. To cook until brown.

Equivalents

Examples

“The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.”

“He wore brown jeans for his birthday.”

““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.”

“[…] browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish.”

“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.”

“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.”

“(The Browns gave the Obamas an ornate penholder made from the timber of a Victorian antislave ship.)”

“After 170 years this is the closest Auckland has come to having a brown mayor. Sure he's a Palagi. But his name is Brown, he's run Manukau for a long time and there's heaps of brown people there so he's gladly owned by many in the Pacific Community.”

“In his cast of characters, you really see a disproportionate focus, I think, on Black women - on Kamala Harris, who he's insinuated only has her job today because of who she dated; to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who he's demanded the LSAT scores of - I don't recall him demanding the LSAT scores for Brett Kavanaugh - Karine Jean-Pierre.”

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