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.
Definitions
- superlative. Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
- noun. 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.
- transitive verb. To make brown or dusky.
- transitive verb. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
- transitive verb. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
- intransitive verb. To become brown.
- noun. a university in Rhode Island
- noun. an orange of low brightness and saturation
- noun. abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859)
- noun. Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
- verb. make brown in color
"the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard"
- verb. fry in a pan until it changes color
"brown the meat in the pan"
- adjective. (of skin) deeply suntanned
- adjective. of a color similar to that of wood or earth
Synonyms
brownness, embrown, browned, brownish
Common word forms
browns, browned, browner, brownly, brownest, browning, brownness
Words from these letters
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