chestnut-brown

1. 1.

   (of hair or feathers) of brown tinged with chestnut

   Similarchromatic

Questions about chestnut-brown

What does chestnut-brown mean?

chestnut-brown means "(of hair or feathers) of brown tinged with chestnut".

How many syllables are in chestnut-brown?

chestnut-brown has 3 syllables and divides as chest-nut--brown under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is chestnut-brown a common word?

chestnut-brown 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.