brown
Because it is a word with a single syllable, brown is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofbrown
- A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
Example: "The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel."
- One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
- Black tar heroin.
- A copper coin.
- A brown horse or other animal.
- (sometimes capitalised) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).
- Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
- A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
- To become brown.
Example: "Fry the onions until they brown."
- To cook something until it becomes brown.
Example: "Brown the onions in a large frying pan."
- To tan.
Example: "Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun."
- To make brown or dusky.
- To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
- (usually derogatory) To turn progressively more Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
Example: "the browning of America"
- To treat with deference, or respect.
- Having a brown colour.
- Gloomy.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
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