brown sauce

1. 1.

   a sauce based on soy sauce

   SynonymsChinese brown sauce

   Broadersauce

   China · cooking

2. 2.

   bouillon or beef stock thickened with butter and flour roux and variously seasoned with herbs or Worcestershire etc.

   Synonymssauce Espagnole

   Broadersauce

Questions about brown sauce

What does brown sauce mean?

brown sauce means "a sauce based on soy sauce". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for brown sauce?

Close synonyms include Chinese brown sauce, sauce Espagnole. 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 sauce a common word?

brown sauce is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.