Brown vs. Brunette

A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.

Example: ‘The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.’;

One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.

(uncountable) Black tar heroin.

A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.

Having a brown colour.

(obsolete) Gloomy.

(sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.

(intransitive) To become brown.

Example: ‘Fry the onions until they brown.’;

To cook something until it becomes brown.

Example: ‘Brown the onions in a large frying pan.’;

To tan.

Example: ‘Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.’;

(transitive) To make brown or dusky.

(transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.

To turn progressively more Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.

Example: ‘the browning of America’;

Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.

Example: ‘Cheeks brown as the oak leaves.’;

A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.

To make brown or dusky.

Example: ‘A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.’;

To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.

To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.

To become brown.

an orange of low brightness and saturation

Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)

abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)

a university in Rhode Island

fry in a pan until it changes color;

Example: ‘brown the meat in the pan’;

of a color similar to that of wood or earth

of a colour produced by mixing red, yellow, and blue, as of dark wood or rich soil

Example: ‘she had warm brown eyes’; ‘an old brown coat’;

(of bread) light brown in colour and typically made with unbleached or unrefined wholemeal flour

Example: ‘a slice of brown toast with low fat spread’;

dark-skinned or suntanned

Example: ‘his face was brown from the sun’;

relating or belonging to a human group characterized as having relatively dark-coloured skin (chiefly used of peoples of ancestry other than European or African)

Example: ‘I interviewed 60 mostly black and brown leaders around our nation’;

another term for coloured (sense 3 of the adjective)

brown colour or pigment

Example: ‘the brown of his eyes’; ‘the print is rich with velvety browns’; ‘a pair of boots in brown’;

brown clothes or material

Example: ‘a woman all in brown’;

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

a satyrid butterfly, which typically has brown wings with small eyespots.

another term for coloured (sense 2 of the noun)

make or become brown, typically by cooking

Example: ‘grill the pizza until the cheese has browned’; ‘a skillet in which food has been browned’;

Brown is a composite color. In the CMYK color model used in printing or painting, brown is made by combining red, black, and yellow, or red, yellow, and blue.

(of hair, eyes, skin, etc.) of a dark color or tone.

(of a person) having brown or black hair and, often, dark eyes and darkish or olive skin.

A person, especially female, with brown or black hair and, often, dark eyes and darkish or olive skin.

a person with dark (brown) hair

marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes;

Example: ‘a brunette beauty’;