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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.

▶noun

• 1 brown colour, pigment, or material.

• 2 used in names of various butterflies with mainly brown wings, e.g. meadow brown.

▶verb

• 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.

– derivatives
brownish adjective,
brownness noun,
browny adjective.

– origin OE brūn, of Gmc origin.