brown
/bɹaʊ̯n/ noun A2- A colour like that of chocolate or coffee. · The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.· He wore brown jeans for his birthday.
- One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
- Black tar heroin.
- A brown horse or other animal.
- A person of mostly Latin American (or Latino), Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, and sometimes Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or rarely Native American descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto, or biracial appearance.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae), such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
- A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
- A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
Plural browns
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Down on the roof so brown--
The man whom we had known as Douglas turned up his own coat and cuff to show a brown triangle within a circle exactly like that which we had seen upon the dead man.
With these words the Witch fell down in a brown, melted, shapeless mass and began to spread over the clean boards of the kitchen floor.
DARK brown is the river,
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