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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

  • (..) - They stink? - Yes-- No! - They make you cry? - No! You leave them out in the sun, they get all brown, start sproutin' little white hairs. No! Layers! Onions have layers. Ogres have layers! Onions have layers. (..)
    2001 Shrek