Overview of noun brown

The noun brown has 4 senses

• brown, brownness -- (an orange of low brightness and saturation)


• Brown, Robert Brown -- (Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858))


• Brown, John Brown -- (abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859))


• Brown University, Brown -- (a university in Rhode Island)

Overview of verb brown

The verb brown has 2 senses

• brown -- (fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan")


• embrown, brown -- (make brown in color; "the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard")

Overview of adj brown

The adj brown has 2 senses

• brown, brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown -- (of a color similar to that of wood or earth)


• brown, browned -- ((of skin) deeply suntanned)