browse

1. 1.

   vegetation (such as young shoots, twigs, and leaves) that is suitable for animals to eat

   “a deer needs to eat twenty pounds of browse every day”

   Broadervegetation
2. 2.

   reading superficially or at random

   Synonymsbrowsing

   Broaderreading
3. 3.

   the act of feeding by continual nibbling

   Synonymsbrowsing

   Broadereating

Other forms of browse

plural

browses·

past tense

browsed·

present participle

browsing·

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 browse

What does browse mean?

browse means "shop around; not necessarily buying". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in browse?

browse has 1 syllable: browse. In IPA it is /ˈbɹaʊz/.

What is another word for browse?

Close synonyms include shop, crop, graze, range, pasture. 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 browse a common word?

browse 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.