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Adjective brown has 1 sense
  1. brown, brownish, dark-brown - of a color similar to that of wood or earth
    Antonym: achromatic (indirect, via chromatic)
,Noun brown has 4 senses
  1. brown, brownness - an orange of low brightness and saturation
    --1 is a kind of chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
    --1 has particulars:
     Vandyke brown; chocolate, coffee, deep brown, umber, burnt umber; light brown; reddish brown, sepia, burnt sienna, Venetian red; yellowish brown, raw sienna, buff, caramel, caramel brown; puce; olive brown; taupe
    Derived form: verb brown1
  2. Brown, Robert Brown - Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
    --2 is a kind of botanist, phytologist, plant scientist
  3. Brown, John Brown - abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)
    --3 is a kind of abolitionist, emancipationist
  4. Brown University, Brown - a university in Rhode Island
    --4 is a kind of university
    --4 is a part of Rhode Island, Little Rhody, Ocean State, RI
    --4 is a member of Ivy League
,Verb brown has 1 sense
  1. brown - fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan"
    --1 is one way to     cook
    Derived form: noun brown1
    Sample sentence:
    The chefs brown the vegetables
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