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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

  • (..) 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