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Vinony

brown

noun

  1. color
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adjective

  1. being brown in colour
L3276 on Wikidata ↗

verb

  1. (cause to) be brown by cooking or tanning
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /bɹaʊn/ / /ˈbɹaʊ̯n/ / /ˈbɹæʊ̯n/ / /ˈbɹaːn/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English Broun, originally a nickname for someone with brown hair or a dark complexion. In the United States, sometimes an anglicization and translation of German Braun. Doublet of Bruno and Braun.

  1. Alternative letter-case form of brown (“of a dark complexion”).

name

Etymology: From Middle English Broun, originally a nickname for someone with brown hair or a dark complexion. In the United States, sometimes an anglicization and translation of German Braun. Doublet of Bruno and Braun.

  1. A surname.

    “(The Browns gave the Obamas an ornate penholder made from the timber of a Victorian antislave ship.)”

    “After 170 years this is the closest Auckland has come to having a brown mayor. Sure he's a Palagi. But his name is Brown, he's run Manukau for a long time and there's heaps of brown people there so he's gladly owned by many in the Pacific Community.”

  2. A surname.
  3. A surname.
  4. A locale in the United States.
  5. A locale in the United States.
  6. A locale in the United States.
  7. A locale in the United States.
  8. A locale in the United States.
  9. A locale in the United States.
  10. Brown University.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English Broun, originally a nickname for someone with brown hair or a dark complexion. In the United States, sometimes an anglicization and translation of German Braun. Doublet of Bruno and Braun.

  1. Alternative letter-case form of brown (“person with a dark complexion”).

verb

Etymology: 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

  1. To become brown.

    “Fry the onions until they brown.”

    “The chicken was browning nicely, the skin beginning to crisp and take on the toasty tones of oiled wood.”

  2. poop.

    “i've just browned myself.”

  3. To cook something until it becomes brown.

    “Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […]”

  4. To tan.

    “Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.”

  5. To make brown or dusky.

    “A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.”

  6. To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.

    “It is mixed uniformly with olive oil, and rubbed upon the iron slightly heated, which is afterwards exposed to the air, till the wished-for degree of browning is produced.”

  7. To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.

    “the browning of America”