Definition of Brown

Adjective: brown (browner,brownest)  brawn

1. Of a colour similar to that of wood or earth
   - brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown, browny
    
2. (of skin) deeply suntanned
   - browned

Noun: brown  brawn

1. Colour of low brightness and saturation, like wood or earth
   - brownness

Verb: brown  brawn

1. (cooking) fry in a pan until it changes colour
   "brown the meat in the pan"
    
2. Make brown in colour
   "the drought browned the leaves on the trees in the yard";
   - embrown

Noun: Brown  brawn

1. Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
   - Robert Brown
    
2. Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)
   - John Brown
    
3. A university in Rhode Island
   - Brown University
    
4. British statesman, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1997-2007 and Labour Prime Minister 2007-2010 (born in 1951)
   - Gordon Brown, James Gordon Brown

See also:
browless
Browne

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