BROWN

Brown

Brown is the color of dark wood or rich soil. It is a composite color made by combining red, black and yellow. The color is seen widely in nature, in wood, soil, and human hair color, eye color and skin pigmentation. Culturally, it is most often associated with plainness, humility, the rustic, and poverty.

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brown

Noun

  1. A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
    The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
  2. One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
  3. Black tar heroin.

Verb

  1. To become brown.
    Fry the onions until they brown.
  2. To cook something until it becomes brown.
    Brown the onions in a large frying pan.
  3. To tan.
    Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
  4. To make brown or dusky.
  5. To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.

Adjective

  1. Having a brown colour.
  2. Gloomy.


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