BROWN
/bɹaʊn/
10
Scrabble
12
WWF
B(3) R(1) O(1) W(4) N(1)
NWL/TWL ✓ Collins ✓ WWF ✓
Definition
/bɹaʊn/
noun
- A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.“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.
verb
- To become brown.“Fry the onions until they brown.”
- To cook something until it becomes brown.“Brown the onions in a large frying pan.”
- To tan.“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.
adjective
- Having a brown colour.
- Gloomy.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
Source: Wiktionary
