brownnoun [ C or U ]
uk/braʊn/us/braʊn/A1 the colour of chocolate or soil:
dark/light brown
More examples
- She stripped the floorboards in the living room and stained them dark brown.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Common colours
- blue
- bluish
- brownish
- green
- greenish
- orange
- pink
- pinkish
- purple
- purplish
- red
- redden
- reddish
- yellow
- yellowish
brown
adjective ukus
Examples
- The parcel was wrapped in plain brown paper.
- He's very handsome, with regular features and deep brown eyes.
- A blackbird's egg is blue with brown speckles on it.
- It was the height of summer and the land was parched and brown.
A1
Both my parents have curly brown hair.
brownverb [ I or T ]
uk/braʊn/us/braʊn/to make food brown by cooking it:
Lightly brown the onion before adding the tomatoes.
Allow the meat to brown before adding the vegetables.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Preparing food using heat
- bake
- barbecue
- baste
- batch-bake
- boil sth up
- boiled
- curry
- flambé
- flash-fry
- fried
- frizzled
- fry
- lightly
- microwave
- precook
- preheat
- render sth down
- rendering
- sauté
- shallow-fry
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