brown
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
brown/braʊn/
▶adjective
- 1 of a colour produced by mixing red, yellow, and blue, as of dark wood or rich soil.
- 2 dark-skinned or suntanned.
- 1 brown colour, pigment, or material.
- 2 used in names of various butterflies with mainly brown wings, e.g. meadow brown.
- 1 make or become brown by cooking.
- 2 (be browned off) Brit. informal be irritated or depressed.
– phrases
(as) brown as a berry very suntanned.
(as) brown as a berry very suntanned.
– derivatives
brownish adjective,
brownness noun,
browny adjective.
brownish adjective,
brownness noun,
browny adjective.
– origin OE brūn, of Gmc origin.
'brown' also found in these Oxford entries:
Abyssinian
- accentor
- alginic acid
- amaretto
- andalusite
- apostlebird
- argus
- auburn
- bay
- beaver
- beechmast
- beefsteak fungus
- bighorn
- bile
- biotite
- bird's-nest orchid
- biscuit
- bittern
- blackbird
- blackbutt
- blackcap
- bladderwrack
- blesbok
- bobwhite
- bontebok
- boobook owl
- booby
- borlotti bean
- boron
- boxer
- bronze
- brown ale
- brown algae
- brown bag lunch
- brown bear
- brown belt
- brown coal
- brown dwarf
- brown fat
- brown goods
- brown holland
- Brownian motion
- brown-nose
- brown owl
- brown rice
- brown rot
- brown sauce
- Brownshirt
- brownstone
