Day 2197
25 Jun 2027

brown

/bɹaʊn/

noun
A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.Black tar heroin.A copper coin.A brown horse or other animal.(sometimes capitalised) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.A brown trout (Salmo trutta).

verb
To become brown.To cook something until it becomes brown.To tan.To make brown or dusky.To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.(usually derogatory) To turn progressively more Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.To treat with deference, or respect.

adjective
Having a brown colour.Gloomy.(sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.