Usually means: Yellowish-brown color; often describes animals.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. tawny: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tawny: Merriam-Webster
  3. tawny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tawny: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tawny: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tawny: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tawny, tawny: Wordnik
  8. tawny: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tawny: Wiktionary
  10. tawny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tawny: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tawny: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tawny: Dictionary.com
  14. tawny: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tawny: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tawny (color), Tawny (disambiguation), Tawny (given name), Tawny (wine), Tawny: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tawny: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tawny: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tawny: Rhymezone
  20. Tawny: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tawny: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Tawny: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. Tawny: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. tawny: FreeDictionary.org
  25. tawny: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. tawny: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tawny: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tawny: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. tawny: A Word A Day

(Note: See tawnier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of a light brown to brownish orange colour.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to have a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
verb:  (intransitive) To become a light brown to brownish orange colour; to tan, to tawn.
noun:  A light brown to brownish orange colour.
noun:  (specifically, heraldry) Synonym of tenné (“a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown”)
noun:  Something of a light brown or brownish orange colour (particularly if it has the word tawny in its name).
noun:  (Somerset) The common bullfinch or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
noun:  (alcoholic beverages) In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.
noun:  (obsolete)
noun:  A fabric of a light brown to brownish orange colour.
noun:  (probably derogatory) A person with skin of a brown colour.
noun:  Tawny frogmouth.
noun:  Tawny owl.

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