brown

Meaning

1. A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
2. One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
3. Black tar heroin.
4. A copper coin.
5. A brown horse or other animal.
6. A person of mostly Latin American (or Latino), Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, and sometimes Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or rarely Native American descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto, or biracial appearance.
7. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae), such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
8. A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
9. A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
10. Having a brown color/colour.
11. Gloomy.
12. Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
13. Latino/Latin American
14. of color.
15. South Asian or sometimes Middle Eastern or North African
16. Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or sometimes Native American
17. Not green (environmentally irresponsible); anti-green (against environmental protection).
18. To become brown.
19. poop.
20. To cook something until it becomes brown.
21. To tan.
22. To make brown or dusky.
23. To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
24. To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
25. A surname.
26. An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname.
27. An Irish surname of Anglo-Norman origin, a translation of de Brún.
28. A locale in the United States.
29. An unincorporated community in California; named for hotelier George Brown.
30. An unincorporated community in Louisiana; named for landowner George W. Brown.
31. An unincorporated community in Oklahoma; named for postmaster Robert H. Brown.
32. An unincorporated community in West Virginia; named for early settler John Brown.
33. A ghost town in Nevada.
34. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Brown Township.
35. Brown University.
36. Alternative letter-case form of brown (“person with a dark complexion”).
37. Alternative letter-case form of brown (“of a dark complexion”).

Etymology / origin

Inherited from Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-. Doublet of bruin. Cognates * Dutch bruin * German braun * Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish brun * Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”) * Latin brunneus (“brown”) * Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”) * Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”) * West Frisian brún

Related words

Descendant words

• 布朗(Chinese) (bor)
• Brown(French) (bor)
• ブラウン(Japanese) (bor)
• ബ്രൗൻ(Malayalam) (bor)
• būrawūn(Marshallese) (bor)
• brau(Pennsylvania German) (cog)
• braun(Tok Pisin) (inh)
• braunpela(Tok Pisin) (der)
• brown(Welsh) (bor)

Sources

No citations have been attached yet.