1. Of a colour similar to that of wood or earth
   "The chocolate-brown leather sofa was the centrepiece of the room";
   - brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown, browny
    
2. (of skin) deeply suntanned
   "His brown skin showed he'd spent the summer outdoors";
   - browned

1. Colour of low brightness and saturation, like wood or earth
   "The brown of the autumn leaves covered the forest floor";
   - brownness

1. (cooking) fry in a pan until it changes colour
   "brown the meat in the pan"
    
2. Make brown in colour
   "the drought browned the leaves on the trees in the yard";
   - embrown

1. A university in Rhode Island
   - Brown University
    
2. Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)
   - John Brown
    
3. Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
   - Robert Brown
    
4. British statesman, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1997-2007 and Labour Prime Minister 2007-2010 (born in 1951)
   - Gordon Brown, James Gordon Brown

Sounds like: Brown, Browne

Derived forms: browned, browner, brownest, browning, browns, Browns

See also: brunet [US], brunette, chromatic

Type of: abolitionist, botanist, chromatic color [US], chromatic colour [Brit, Cdn], color [US], color in [US], colorise [Brit], colorize [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], colour in [Brit, Cdn], colourise [Brit], colourize [Brit, Cdn], cook, emancipationist, phytologist, plant scientist, PM, premier, Prime Minister, school [N. Amer], spectral color [US], spectral colour [Brit, Cdn], uni [Brit, informal], university

Part of: British Labour Party, Ivy League, Labor [US], Labour [UK], Labour Party [UK], Little Rhody, Ocean State, R.I., Rhode Island, RI

Encyclopedia: Brown, Melissa