fawn

1. 1.

   a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color

   “she wore dun”

   Synonymsdungreyish browngrayish brown

   Broaderlight brown
2. 2.

   a young deer

   Broaderdeeryoung mammal

Other forms of fawn

plural

fawns·

past tense

fawned·

present participle

fawning·

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 fawn

What does fawn mean?

fawn means "show submission or fear". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fawn?

fawn has 1 syllable: fawn. In IPA it is /ˈfɔn/.

What is another word for fawn?

Close synonyms include crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel. 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 fawn a common word?

fawn 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.