Dictionary Entry
brown
brown is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1superlative
Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
- 2noun
A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.
- 3transitive verb
To make brown or dusky.
- 4transitive verb
To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
- 5transitive verb
To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
- 6intransitive verb
To become brown.
- 7noun
a university in Rhode Island
- 8noun
an orange of low brightness and saturation
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- 9noun
abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)
- 10noun
Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
- 11verb
make brown in color
"the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard"
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- 12verb
fry in a pan until it changes color
"brown the meat in the pan"
- 13adjective
(of skin) deeply suntanned
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- 14adjective
of a color similar to that of wood or earth
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