brown

Definition

  • noun: a color like the color of coffee or chocolate
  • noun: any of a group of colors between red and yellow in hue, of medium to low lightness, and of moderate to low saturation
  • verb: to make (something) brown or to become brown especially by cooking or heating
  • verb: to become brown
  • adjective: having a color like coffee or chocolate
  • adjective: of the color brown
  • synonyms: lurid, foxy, hazel

Examples

  • workers whose backs are 'brown' from long hours in the sun

  • The chicken is 'browning' in the oven.

  • The room was decorated in 'brown'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) If we can harness this power, apply it to my Iron Legion protocol. That's a mad-sized if. Our job is "if." What if you were sipping margueritas on a sun-drenched beach turning brown instead of green. Not looking over your shoulder for VERONICA. Don't hate, I helped design VERONICA. (..)
    2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron
  • (..) I hate coconut. Not the taste, the consistency. Oh, this Twinkie thing it ain't over yet. This may be a bad time, but, I just ate the brown sugar Snowballs. - Really? - Really. I know. Again? So soon? What can I say. It is.. I've always been kind of (..)
    2009 Zombieland
  • (..) Shit. He needed to look ill at ease in his clothes at work.. So he was disheveled and nothing quite fit him properly. The brown coat, the brown jacket. We went shopping for that. One of the first experiences I had with her ... ... was going to an antique flea market. Just walking through. (..)
    2001 The Matrix Revisited