brown
adjective /braʊn/
/braʊn/
(comparative browner, superlative brownest)
Idioms - having the colour of earth or coffee
- brown eyes/hair
- brown bread/sugar/rice
- dark brown shoe polish
- a package wrapped in brown paper
- Soon the yellow leaves will turn brown.
- Henry has short light brown hair and green eyes.
- a little boy with golden brown skin
- We stopped on a bridge to watch the wild brown trout.
Extra ExamplesTopics Colours and Shapesa1- The once-green fields were now uniformly brown.
- a lovely warm brown colour
- her dark brown eyes
- monkeys with bright brown fur
- bright brown eyes
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- very
- uniformly
- dark
- deep
- light
- …
- having skin that is naturally brown or has been made brown by the sun
- (British English) I don't go brown very easily.
- After the summer in Spain, the children were brown as berries.
- He looked very brown after the cruise.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- very
- uniformly
- dark
- deep
- light
- …
Word OriginOld English brūn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bruin and German braun.
Idioms
in a brown study
- (old-fashioned, British English) thinking deeply so that you do not notice what is happening around you