browning

Other forms of browning

plural

brownings·

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 browning

What does browning mean?

browning means "United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in browning?

browning has 2 syllables: brow-ning. The stress falls on "brow". In IPA it is /ˈbɹaʊnɪŋ/.

What is another word for browning?

Close synonyms include John M. Browning, John Moses Browning, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, toasting. 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 browning a common word?

browning is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.