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Definition of brown noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

brown

noun
 
/braʊn/
 
/braʊn/
[uncountable, countable]
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  1. the colour of earth or coffee
    • leaves of various shades of brown
    • Brown doesn't (= brown clothes do not) suit you.
    • lovely warm browns and golds
    • His skin was a golden brown and he was well-built.
    • dark browns and other deep earth tones
    Topics Colours and Shapesa1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • very
    • uniformly
    adjective
    • dark
    • deep
    • light
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    Word OriginOld English brūn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bruin and German braun.
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