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

  • (..) - Excuse me. l do apologise. She's a pistol, Cal. Hope you can handle her. Well, l may have to start minding what she reads, Mrs Brown. Freud... who is he ? ls he a passenger ? ..turns the propeller,... ..makes these waves,... ..makes them spin. (..)
    1997 Titanic
  • (..) - Put the Degas in the bedroom. - At least they were cheap. Put it in the wardrobe. (Rose) At Cherbourg, a woman came aboard named Margaret Brown. History would call her ''The Unsinkable Molly Brown''. l wasn't about to wait all day, sonny. Here, think you can manage ? (..)
    1997 Titanic