Meaning of "brown" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BROWN

Old English brūn; related to Old Norse brūnn, Old High German brūn, Greek phrunos toad, Sanskrit babhru reddish-brown.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF BROWN

brown  [braʊn]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BROWN

Brown is a verb and can also act as a noun and an adjective.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb brown in English.

WHAT DOES BROWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Brown

Brown is the color of dark wood or rich soil. It is a composite color made by combining red, black and yellow. The color is seen widely in nature, in wood, soil, and human hair color, eye color and skin pigmentation. In Europe and the United States, it is the color most often associated with plainness, humility, the rustic, and poverty. It is also, according to public opinion surveys, the least favorite color of the public.

Definition of brown in the English dictionary

The first definition of brown in the dictionary is any of various colours, such as those of wood or earth, produced by low intensity light in the wavelength range 620–585 nanometres. Other definition of brown is a dye or pigment producing these colours. Brown is also brown cloth or clothing.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BROWN

PRESENT

Present

I brown

you brown

he/she/it browns

we brown

you brown

they brown

Present continuous

I am browning

you are browning

he/she/it is browning

we are browning

you are browning

they are browning

Present perfect

I have browned

you have browned

he/she/it has browned

we have browned

you have browned

they have browned

Present perfect continuous

I have been browning

you have been browning

he/she/it has been browning

we have been browning

you have been browning

they have been browning

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I browned

you browned

he/she/it browned

we browned

you browned

they browned

Past continuous

I was browning

you were browning

he/she/it was browning

we were browning

you were browning

they were browning

Past perfect

I had browned

you had browned

he/she/it had browned

we had browned

you had browned

they had browned

Past perfect continuous

I had been browning

you had been browning

he/she/it had been browning

we had been browning

you had been browning

they had been browning

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will brown

you will brown

he/she/it will brown

we will brown

you will brown

they will brown

Future continuous

I will be browning

you will be browning

he/she/it will be browning

we will be browning

you will be browning

they will be browning

Future perfect

I will have browned

you will have browned

he/she/it will have browned

we will have browned

you will have browned

they will have browned

Future perfect continuous

I will have been browning

you will have been browning

he/she/it will have been browning

we will have been browning

you will have been browning

they will have been browning

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would brown

you would brown

he/she/it would brown

we would brown

you would brown

they would brown

Conditional continuous

I would be browning

you would be browning

he/she/it would be browning

we would be browning

you would be browning

they would be browning

Conditional perfect

I would have brown

you would have brown

he/she/it would have brown

we would have brown

you would have brown

they would have brown

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been browning

you would have been browning

he/she/it would have been browning

we would have been browning

you would have been browning

they would have been browning

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you brown
we let´s brown
you brown

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to brown

Past participle

browned

Present Participle

browning

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «BROWN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «brown» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of brown

auburn · bay · brick · bronze · bronzed · brunette · chestnut · chocolate · coarse-grained · coffee · cook · dark · dun · dusky · fry · fuscous · ginger · grill · hazel · rust · sear · sunburnt · tan · tanned · tawny · umber · unpurified · unrefined · untreated · wholegrain · wholemeal

TRANSLATION OF BROWN

Find out the translation of brown to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of brown from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «brown» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 棕色的
• Translator English - Spanish: marrón
• English: brown
• Translator English - Hindi: ब्राउन
• Translator English - Arabic: أَسُمَر
• Translator English - Russian: коричневый
• Translator English - Portuguese: marrom
• Translator English - Bengali: বাদামী
• Translator English - French: marron
• Translator English - Malay: Coklat
• Translator English - German: braun
• Translator English - Japanese: 茶色の
• Translator English - Korean: 갈색의
• Translator English - Javanese: Coklat
• Translator English - Vietnamese: màu nâu
• Translator English - Tamil: பழுப்பு
• Translator English - Marathi: तपकिरी
• Translator English - Turkish: kahverengi
• Translator English - Italian: marrone
• Translator English - Polish: brązowy
• Translator English - Ukrainian: коричневий
• Translator English - Romanian: maro
• Translator English - Greek: καφετής
• Translator English - Afrikaans: bruin
• Translator English - Swedish: brun
• Translator English - Norwegian: brun

10 QUOTES WITH «BROWN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word brown.

1

Ralph Abernathy

You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

2

Sherman Alexie

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

3

Utkarsh Ambudkar

The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'

4

David Antin

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

5

Afrika Bambaataa

Everybody needs to show respect to each others' ways and the cultural life that you get on this planet. Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.

6

Roy Bean

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.

7

Bobbi Brown

I used the stormy gray and heather brown shadows from the Lilac Rose Eye Palette to create a soft smokey eye for Veronica Beard's Spring 2013 show. The look was dramatic but delicate.

8

Santiago Cabrera

In America, I am brown; I'm 'of colour', so I would be offered Latin roles, and I've fought against that. I don't want to be put in a category, to be just offered the same sort of thing. For me, it's all about different roles, telling the stories of the great writers.

9

Claire Cameron

I was hiking a five-day loop - alone - in the Rocky Mountains when I rounded the switchback and saw a large body on the trail ahead. It had brown fur with a cinnamon tinge that was draped across dense, humped back muscle. A broad head lifted and I could see the dish-shaped muzzle was catching my scent. I knew bears. This was a grizzly.

10

Jonathan Carroll

Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BROWN»

Discover the use of brown in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to brown and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire

But, as political theorist Wendy Brown argues in Regulating Aversion, tolerance also has dark and troubling undercurrents. Dislike, disapproval, and regulation lurk at the heart of tolerance.

Wendy Brown, 2009

Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage

This volume will be of special interest to students in linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, anthropology, and the sociology and social psychology of interaction.

Penelope Brown, 1987

48 Shades of Brown

While his parents are in Geneva, sixteen-year-old Dan spends his last year of high school living with his twenty-two-year-old bass-playing aunt, Jacq, and her beautiful friend Naomi, whose active lovelife is audible through the wall between ...

Nick Earls, 1999

Augustine of Hippo: A Biography

Classic biography, published 30 years ago. Contains new thoughts in a 2 chapter epilogue.

Peter Robert Lamont Brown, 2000

The Brown Bottle

In this allegory, a caterpillar finds such a pleasant mellow glow inside a brown bottle that he rejects his friends and the outside world altogether, and becomes completely dependent on the bottle which traps and eventually kills him.

Penny Jones, 1983

Bobbi Brown Beauty Rules: Fabulous Looks, Beauty Essentials, ...

From best-selling author and famed makeup artist Bobbi Brown comes this definitive beauty book empowering teens and twenty-somethings with age-appropriate makeup tips, style secrets, and self-esteem boosters.

Bobbi Brown, 2010

Advances in the Science of Victorian Brown Coal

Advances in the Science of Victorian Brown Coal provides critical reviews of the information and research published over this time, giving the reader an authoritative overview of the science surrounding this important topic. · Critical ...

Chun

The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown

Arguably the greatest African-American poet of the century, and one of the most important American poets, Sterling A. Brown was a contemporary of Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer; as a part of this group, and individually, he ...

Sterling Allen Brown, Michael S. Harper, 1996

African American Women Chemists

The book looks at chemists in academia, industry, and government, as well as chemical engineers, whose career path is very different from that of the tradition chemist, and it concludes with a chapter on the future of African American women ...

Jeannette Brown, 2012

Young Goodman Brown

An outstanding tale of witchcraft, the story concerns a young Puritan who ventures into the forest to meet with a stranger.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BROWN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term brown is used in the context of the following news items.

Bobby Brown looks solemn as daughter Bobbi Kristina remains at …

Brown's comments came just a day after he performed at the Affordable Old School Concert series in Atlanta on Saturday. The 46-year-old ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»

Rugby World Cup 2015: England full-back Mike Brown reveals …

The effects of concussion in rugby have been vividly described by England full-back Mike Brown ahead of the World Cup showdown with ... «WalesOnline, Jul 15»

Chicago Boy Amari Brown Among 10 Dead, 54 Wounded In Holiday …

Gun violence in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend left 10 dead and 54 others wounded across the city. Amari Brown, a 7-year-old boy ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»

Festival seeks Agnes Brown look-a-likes to break world record

A contest to find a look-a-like for Finglas native Agnes Brown will take place at the local shopping centre next Thursday July 19th, ahead of the ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»

Chelsea kid Izzy Brown set for loan move to Vitesse Arnhem

The forward made his Premier League debut for the Blues in the 3-0 loss at West Brom in May. But the England Under 19 international is set to ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»

Edison High coach Carl Brown claims firing is racist

Carl Brown rallied his players for the final time last Thursday. The football coach at Edison High School in northeast Minneapolis called an ... «City Pages, Jul 15»

Internal poll shows Anthony Brown with large lead in congressional …

Brown, who ran an unsuccessful campaign for governor last year, has support from 42 percent of respondents in the poll, compared with 20 ... «Baltimore Sun, Jul 15»

Karrueche Tran Makes Fun of Rihanna Over Ex-Boyfriend Chris Brown

Chris Brown and Karrueche Tran just recently had a public display of anger last June 5 inside the Playhouse Nightclub according to Hollywood ... «Realty Today, Jul 15»

Brown & Root name to live again

KBR is spinning off part of its business to form a new industrial services company that will bring back the Brown & Root name, the company ... «Houston Chronicle, Jul 15»

Boston 101: #60 • "Down to the River” • Brown Bird

More than any other songwriter of my lifetime, I feel the same applies to Brown Bird's David Lamb. A real searcher and a deep thinker, Dave ... «Boston Herald, Jul 15»