brown
/bɹaʊ̯n/ adjective A1- Having a brown color/colour.
- Latino/Latin American
- of color.
- South Asian or sometimes Middle Eastern or North African
- Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or sometimes Native American
- Not green (environmentally irresponsible); anti-green (against environmental protection). · Near-synonyms: nongreen, antigreen
Comparative browner · Superlative brownest
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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