brown

1. 1.

   fry in a pan until it changes color

   “brown the meat in the pan”

   Broadercook

   cooking

2. 2.

   make brown in color

   “the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard”

   Synonymsembrown

   Broadercolor

1. 1.

   of a color similar to that of wood or earth

   Synonymsbrownishchocolate-browndark-brown

   Similarchromatic
2. 2.

   (of skin) deeply suntanned

   Synonymsbrowned

   Similarbrunet

Other forms of brown

plural

browns·

past tense

browned·

present participle

browning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about brown

What does brown mean?

brown means "an orange of low brightness and saturation". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brown?

brown has 1 syllable: brown. In IPA it is /ˈbɹaʊn/.

What is another word for brown?

Close synonyms include brownness, Robert Brown, John Brown, Brown University, embrown. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brown a common word?

brown is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with brown?

1 word rhymes with brown. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.