Definition of Brown

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Definition of Brown

Brown

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

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.

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.

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Brown Quotations

The only color I don't have is navy brown.
Yogi Berra

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
Erma Bombeck

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Ernest Hemingway

I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.
Rodney Dangerfield

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.
Chris Rock

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
Charles M. Schulz

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
Quentin Tarantino

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
Wanda Sykes

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
Al Sharpton

A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
Bruce Dickinson

Brown Translations

brown in Afrikaans is bruin
brown in Danish is brun
brown in Dutch is bruin
brown in Finnish is ruskea
brown in Hungarian is barna
brown in Italian is marrone
brown in Norwegian is brun
brown in Portuguese is marrom
brown in Swedish is brun, brun, bryna

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