brown bear

Questions about brown bear

What does brown bear mean?

brown bear means "large ferocious bear of Eurasia".

What is another word for brown bear?

Close synonyms include bruin, Ursus arctos. 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 bear a common word?

brown bear is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.