sepia

1. 1.

   a shade of brown with a tinge of red

   Synonymsreddish brownburnt siennaVenetian redmahogany

   Broaderbrown

   Narrowerbrick redcopperIndian red
2. 2.

   rich brown pigment prepared from the ink of cuttlefishes

   Broaderpigment
3. 3.

   type genus of the Sepiidae

   Synonymsgenus Sepia

   Broadermollusk genus

   Part ofSepiidae

Other forms of sepia

plural

sepias·

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 sepia

What does sepia mean?

sepia means "a shade of brown with a tinge of red". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sepia?

sepia has 3 syllables: se-pi-a. The stress falls on "se". In IPA it is /ˈsipiə/.

What is another word for sepia?

Close synonyms include reddish brown, burnt sienna, Venetian red, mahogany, genus Sepia. 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 sepia a common word?

sepia 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.