Usually means: Color of earth, wood, warmth.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word brown:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brown, brown: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Brown, brown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brown: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brown: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Brown, brown: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brown, Brown, brown: Wordnik
  7. brown: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Brown, brown: Wiktionary
  9. brown: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brown: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. brown: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Brown, brown: Dictionary.com
  13. brown: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. brown: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Brown (Grotus album), Brown (P.O.D. album), Brown (album), Brown (color), Brown (crater), Brown (disambiguation), Brown (racial classification), Brown (surname), Brown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Brown: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. brown: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. brown: Rhymezone
  19. brown: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. brown: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BROWN, Brown: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Brown: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. brown: Free Dictionary
  24. brown: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Brown, brown: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. Brown: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. brown: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. Brown: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brown: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brown (color), brown: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brown (color), brown: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. brown (n.): Cats
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. brown: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. brown, brown, brown, brown, brown, brown, brown: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Brown: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Brown (the car), b.r.o.w.n, the brown: Urban Dictionary
  4. Brown: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brown: Canadian Soil Information System
  2. Brown: Coin Collecting

(Note: See browned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
noun:  (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
noun:  (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
noun:  (slang, archaic, countable) A copper coin.
noun:  A brown horse or other animal.
noun:  (sometimes capitalised, countable, informal, ethnic slur) A person of Latino, Middle Eastern or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
noun:  (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).
noun:  (entomology) Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
noun:  (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
noun:  (hunting, as "the brown") A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
adjective:  Having a brown colour.
adjective:  (obsolete) Gloomy.
adjective:  (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
adjective:  (US) Latino
adjective:  (of Asians) South Asian or sometimes Middle Eastern or North African
adjective:  (of East-Eurasian ancestry) Southeast Asian
verb:  (intransitive) To become brown.
verb:  (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To tan.
verb:  (transitive) To make brown or dusky.
verb:  (transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
verb:  (demography, transitive, intransitive, slang, ethnic slur, usually derogatory, offensive) To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
noun:  (countable) A surname.
noun:  An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname.
noun:  An Irish surname of Anglo-Norman origin, a translation of de Brún.
noun:  A locale in the United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in California; named for hotelier George Brown.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Louisiana; named for landowner George W. Brown.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Oklahoma; named for postmaster Robert H. Brown.
noun:  An unincorporated community in West Virginia; named for early settler John Brown.
noun:  A ghost town in Nevada.
noun:  A number of townships in the United States, listed under Brown Township.
noun:  Brown University.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of brown (“person with a dark complexion”) [(countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.]
adjective:  (chiefly US, often Canada and UK) Alternative letter-case form of brown (“of a dark complexion”) [Having a brown colour.]

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    beige,     tan,     taupe,     chestnut,     chocolate,     coffee,     sienna,     umber,     sepia,     mahogany



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