brown

adjective

• of a colour produced by mixing red, yellow, and blue, as of dark wood or rich soil:an old brown coat she had warm brown eyes
• dark-skinned or suntanned:his face was brown from the sun
• South African term for coloured (sense 2 of the adjective).
• (of bread) made from unsifted or unbleached flour.

noun

• 1 [mass noun] brown colour or pigment:the brown of his eyes a pair of boots in brown [count noun]:the print is rich with velvety browns
• brown clothes or material:a woman all in brown

• 2a brown thing, in particular the brown ball in snooker.

• 3 [with modifier] a satyrid butterfly, which typically has brown wings with small eyespots.

  • Subfamily Satyrinae, family Nymphalidae: many genera and species

• 4South African term for coloured (sense 1 of the noun).compulsory education for blacks and browns

verb

• make or become brown, typically by cooking: [with object]:a skillet in which food has been browned [no object]:grill the pizza until the cheese has browned