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      brown
      noun
      (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
      (sometimes capitalised, countable, informal, ethnic slur) A person of mostly Latin American (or Latino), Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, and sometimes Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or rarely Native American descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto, or biracial appearance.
      (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
      (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
      A brown horse or other animal.
      (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae), such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
      (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
      (hunting, as "the brown") A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
      An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname.
      An Irish surname of Anglo-Norman origin, a translation of de Brún.
      (countable) A surname.
      Brown University.
      A locale in the United States.
      An unincorporated community in California; named for hotelier George Brown.
      An unincorporated community in Louisiana; named for landowner George W. Brown.
      An unincorporated community in Oklahoma; named for postmaster Robert H. Brown.
      An unincorporated community in West Virginia; named for early settler John Brown.
      A ghost town in Nevada.
      A number of townships in the United States, listed under Brown Township.
      Alternative letter-case form of brown (“person with a dark complexion”). [(countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.]
      (slang, archaic, countable) A copper coin.
      verb
      (intransitive) To become brown.
      (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
      (transitive) To make brown or dusky.
      (transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
      (demography, transitive, intransitive, slang, ethnic slur, usually derogatory, offensive) To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
      (intransitive, transitive) To tan.
      adjective
      Having a brown colour.
      (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
      (US) Latino/Latin American
      (of Asians and Africans) South Asian or sometimes Middle Eastern or North African
      (of East-Eurasian ancestry) Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or sometimes Native American
      Not green (environmentally irresponsible); anti-green (against environmental protection).
      (US, loosely, vague) of color.
      (chiefly US, often Canada and UK) Alternative letter-case form of brown (“of a dark complexion”). [Having a brown colour.]
      (obsolete) Gloomy.
      Synonyms for brown
      brownnessnbrownishadjtaupenblackadjbeigeadjfuscousadjtanadjbrunetntawnyadjecrun
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