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Definition of brown : 1. A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.
2. Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
3. To become brown.
4. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
5. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
6. To make brown or dusky.

Synonyms:

chocolate-brown, rust-colored, chromatic, cook, scorch, browned, embrown, brownn, copper-colored, fry, Robert Brown, dark-brown, coffee-colored, brownish, brownness, john brown

cafe au lait, walnut, acorn, brunette, tawny, coffee, dun, chocolate, partridge, cocoa, sepia, burnt almond, copper, chestnut, auburn, fawn, drab, khaki, nut brown, tan, hazel, cinnamon, toast, biscuit, coconut, umber

Usage examples:

• They all had brown eyes. - "St. Peter's Umbrella", Kálmán Mikszáth.
• When brown on one side, turn and brown on the other. - "Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.", George Francis Atkinson.
• The brown at first did nothing at all. - "The Happy Family", Bertha Muzzy Bower.