auburn
adjective /ˈɔːbən/
/ˈɔːbərn/
- (of hair) red-brown in colourWordfinderTopics Appearancec2, Colours and Shapesc2
- auburn
- blonde
- dark
- fair
- ginger
- grey
- jet black
- mousy
- redhead
- sandy
Oxford Collocations DictionaryAuburn is used with these nouns:- curl
- hair
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French auborne, alborne, from Latin alburnus ‘whitish’, from albus ‘white’. The original sense was ‘yellowish white’, but the word became associated with brown because in the 16th and 17th centuries it was often written abrune or abroun.