Brown

//bɹaʊn//

Synonyms for "brown" (202 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (41)

Verb(1 words)

embrown acorn alesan alizarin brown anthracene brown anthragallol antique brown antique gold argos brown autumn leaf bake barbecue baste becloud bedarken bedim begloom beige biscuit bister

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black black out black tar blacken blanch block the light blot out boil bone brown bordeaux bracken braise brew broil bronze brown race

Noun(3 words)

heroin black tar blow

Adjective(1 words)

antigreen

Strong matches (60)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

10 relation types

More general

13 entries

chromatic color chromatic colour color color in colorise colorize colour colour in colourise colourize cook spectral color spectral colour

Synonyms

6 entries

brown university browned chocolate brown embrown john brown robert brown

Related terms

8 entries

Browne auburn brownfield brunet burnet golding mahogany tawny

derived

270 entries

Arran brown Asian brown flycatcher Banks' brown Bismarck brown Boston brown bread Brown Bess Brown Betty Brown County Brown George Brown Shirt Brown Swiss Brown clustering Brown-Séquard's hemiplegia Brown-Séquard's paralysis Browncoat Brownian

Showing 16 of 270 words.

derived from

1 entries

english carrier

has context

6 entries

cooking demography slang snooker sometimes capitalised sometimes capitalized

is a

6 entries

brownish thing chromatic color color colored thing colour ore

manner of

1 entries

cook

related to

21 entries

biracial black tar braun brunet burnet chocolate coating coffee colour descent gloomy gold heroin hispanic latino middle eastern

Showing 16 of 21 words.

similar

3 entries

brunet brunette chromatic

Translations

529 translations across 178 languages.

Afrikaans

4 entries

bruin adj (having a brown colour)
Bruyn name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)
Bruyns name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)
de Bruin name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)

Akan

2 entries

ahaban dada noun (colour)
ntokowa ntokowa noun (colour)

Albanian

3 entries

bojë kafe adj (having a brown colour)
zeshkan adj (having a brown colour)
bojëkafe noun (colour)

Amharic

1 entries

ቡናይነት adj (having a brown colour)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

ὀρφνός noun (colour)

Arabic

4 entries

أسمر adj (having a brown colour)
أَسْمَر adj (having a brown colour)
بُنِّيّ adj (having a brown colour)
سَمْرَاء adj (having a brown colour)

Aragonese

4 entries

marrón adj (having a brown colour)
pardo adj (having a brown colour)
marrón noun (colour)
pardo noun (colour)

Armenian

4 entries

շագանակագույն adj (having a brown colour)
դարչնագույն noun (colour)
կարիչնիվի noun (colour)
շագանակագույն noun (colour)

Aromanian

1 entries

murnu noun (colour)

Assamese

1 entries

মটীয়া noun (colour)

Asturian

3 entries

castañu adj (having a brown colour)
marrón adj (having a brown colour)
marrón noun (colour)

Azerbaijani

4 entries

darçını adj (having a brown colour)
qəhvəyi adj (having a brown colour)
darçını noun (colour)
qəhvəyi noun (colour)

Bashkir

2 entries

көрән adj (having a brown colour)
көрән noun (colour)

Basque

2 entries

marroi adj (having a brown colour)
marroi noun (colour)

Belarusian

4 entries

ка́ры adj (having a brown colour)
кары́чневы adj (having a brown colour)
кашта́навы adj (having a brown colour)
кары́чневы noun (colour)

Bengali

1 entries

বাদামি adj (having a brown colour)

Bhojpuri

1 entries

भुअर adj (having a brown colour)

Bislama

1 entries

braon noun (colour)

Breton

3 entries

brun adj (having a brown colour)
gell adj (having a brown colour)
gell noun (colour)

Bulgarian

3 entries

кафя́в adj (having a brown colour)
кафя́в noun (colour)
кафя́в цвят noun (colour)

Burmese

2 entries

ညို adj (having a brown colour)
အညို noun (colour)

Catalan

4 entries

marró adj (having a brown colour)
Bru name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)
marró noun (colour)
enrossir verb (to cook until brown)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

قاوەیی noun (colour)

Central Sierra Miwok

1 entries

tatát·-i noun (colour)

Cherokee

1 entries

ᎤᏬᏗᎨᎢ noun (colour)

Chichewa

1 entries

bulawuni noun (colour)

Chickasaw

3 entries

lakna adj (having a brown colour)
lakna noun (colour)
lakna verb (to become brown)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

啡色 noun (colour)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

咖啡色 adj (having a brown colour)
棕色 adj (having a brown colour)
褐色 adj (having a brown colour)
布朗 name (transliterations of the English name "Brown")

Chuvash

1 entries

хӑмӑр adj (having a brown colour)

Cornish

4 entries

gell adj (having a brown colour)
gorm adj (having a brown colour)
gell noun (colour)
gorm noun (colour)

Crimean Tatar

2 entries

qave renki adj (having a brown colour)
qoñur noun (colour)

Czech

4 entries

hnědý adj (having a brown colour)
hnědý noun (colour)
zhnědnout verb (to become brown)
zhnědnout verb (to cook until brown)

Danish

4 entries

brun adj (having a brown colour)
Brun name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)
Bruun name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)
brun noun (colour)

Dari

4 entries

قَهْوَهایِ adj (having a brown colour)
نَسْوَارِی adj (having a brown colour)
قَهْوَهایِ noun (colour)
نَسْوَارِی noun (colour)

Dutch

4 entries

bruin adj (having a brown colour)
Bruijn name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)
Bruin name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)
Bruins name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)

Dutch Low Saxon

3 entries

bruun adj (having a brown colour)
broen noun (colour)
bruun noun (colour)

Esperanto

3 entries

bruna adj (having a brown colour)
Braŭno name (transliterations of the English name "Brown")
bruno noun (colour)

Estonian

2 entries

pruun adj (having a brown colour)
pruun noun (colour)

Faroese

4 entries

brúnur adj (having a brown colour)
brúnt noun (colour)
brúnka verb (to become brown)
brúnka verb (to cook until brown)

Fijian

1 entries

dravu noun (colour)

Finnish

4 entries

ruskea adj (having a brown colour)
Rusko name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)
heinäperhonen noun (nymphalid butterfly of subfamily Satyrinae)
kupariraha noun (copper coin)

French

4 entries

brun adj (having a brown colour)
marron adj (having a brown colour)
Brun name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)
Brunet name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)

Galician

4 entries

castaño adj (having a brown colour)
marrón adj (having a brown colour)
pardo adj (having a brown colour)
brun noun (colour)

Georgian

4 entries

ყავისფერი adj (having a brown colour)
მურა noun (colour)
ჟღალისფერი noun (colour)
უნაბისფერი noun (colour)

German

4 entries

braun adj (having a brown colour)
bruun adj (having a brown colour)
Braun name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)
Braune name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)

Greek

4 entries

καστανός adj (having a brown colour)
ορφνός adj (having a brown colour)
Μπράουν name (transliterations of the English name "Brown")
καστανό noun (colour)

Greenlandic

1 entries

kajortoq noun (colour)

Gujarati

2 entries

બદામી adj (having a brown colour)
ભૂરો adj (having a brown colour)

Hebrew

3 entries

חוּם adj (having a brown colour)
בראון name (transliterations of the English name "Brown")
חוּם noun (colour)

Hiligaynon

2 entries

abelyána adj (having a brown colour)
abelyána noun (colour)

Hindi

3 entries

भूरा adj (having a brown colour)
ब्राउन name (transliterations of the English name "Brown")
भूरा noun (colour)

Hopi

1 entries

tasikpu noun (colour)

Hungarian

3 entries

barna adj (having a brown colour)
Barna name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)
barna noun (colour)

Icelandic

2 entries

brúnn adj (having a brown colour)
brúnn noun (colour)

Ido

1 entries

bruna noun (colour)

Igbo

2 entries

brawu adj (having a brown colour)
nchara noun (colour)

Indonesian

2 entries

cokelat adj (having a brown colour)
cokelat noun (colour)

Ingush

2 entries

бора adj (having a brown colour)
бора noun (colour)

Iranian Persian

2 entries

قَهْوِهای adj (having a brown colour)
قَهْوِهای noun (colour)

Iranun

1 entries

maredtem noun (colour)

Irish

4 entries

donn adj (having a brown colour)
donn noun (colour)
donnaigh verb (to become brown)
donnaigh verb (to cook until brown)

Italian

4 entries

bruno adj (having a brown colour)
marrone adj (having a brown colour)
Brunetti name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)
Bruni name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)

Japanese

4 entries

茶色い adj (having a brown colour)
褐色 adj (having a brown colour)
ブラウン name (transliterations of the English name "Brown")
茶色 noun (colour)

Javanese

1 entries

soklat adj (having a brown colour)

Kaitag

1 entries

бера noun (colour)

Kalmyk

2 entries

күрң adj (having a brown colour)
күрң noun (colour)

Kankanaey

1 entries

kaman-nangu noun (colour)

Kannada

1 entries

ಕಂದು adj (having a brown colour)

Kapampangan

2 entries

komanggi noun (colour)
makomanggi noun (colour)

Karachay-Balkar

1 entries

къонгур noun (colour)

Karaim

1 entries

къахъвэ рэнги noun (colour)

Kazakh

1 entries

қоңыр adj (having a brown colour)

Khakas

2 entries

кӱрең adj (having a brown colour)
хоор noun (colour)

Khmer

2 entries

ត្នោត adj (having a brown colour)
ពណ៌ត្នោត noun (colour)

Khoekhoe

1 entries

ǂgama noun (colour)

Kongo

1 entries

maron noun (colour)

Korean

3 entries

갈색의 adj (having a brown colour)
브라운 name (transliterations of the English name "Brown")
갈색 noun (colour)

Kumyk

1 entries

къонгур noun (colour)

Kyrgyz

2 entries

күрөң adj (having a brown colour)
күрөң noun (colour)

Lakota

3 entries

ǧiyá adj (having a brown colour)
ǧí noun (colour)
ǧiyÁ verb (to cook until brown)

Lao

1 entries

ນ້ຳຕານ adj (having a brown colour)

Latgalian

1 entries

bryuns noun (colour)

Latin

4 entries

brunneus adj (having a brown colour)
spādīx adj (having a brown colour)
ustīcius adj (having a brown colour)
aquilus noun (colour)

Latvian

2 entries

brūns adj (having a brown colour)
brūns noun (colour)

Ligurian

1 entries

brûn adj (having a brown colour)

Lingala

1 entries

maron noun (colour)

Lithuanian

2 entries

rudas adj (having a brown colour)
rudas noun (colour)

Louisiana Creole

4 entries

brun adj (having a brown colour)
maron adj (having a brown colour)
brun noun (colour)
maron noun (colour)

Low German

4 entries

brun adj (having a brown colour)
bruun adj (having a brown colour)
Brun noun (colour)
Bruun noun (colour)

Luhya

1 entries

ekawa noun (colour)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

brong adj (having a brown colour)

Macedonian

3 entries

кафен adj (having a brown colour)
браон noun (colour)
кафеав noun (colour)

Malagasy

2 entries

fiana noun (colour)
volontany noun (colour)

Malay

4 entries

coklat adj (having a brown colour)
merah adj (having a brown colour)
perang adj (having a brown colour)
sawo adj (having a brown colour)

Malayalam

2 entries

കാക്കി adj (having a brown colour)
തവിട്ട് noun (colour)

Maltese

1 entries

kannella noun (colour)

Maranao

1 entries

malimba noun (colour)

Marathi

1 entries

कथ्था adj (having a brown colour)

Mongolian

3 entries

бор adj (having a brown colour)
хүрэн adj (having a brown colour)
бор noun (colour)

Montagnais

1 entries

katshishtemauaput noun (colour)

Muong

2 entries

nu adj (having a brown colour)
nu noun (colour)

Māori

4 entries

parauri adj (having a brown colour)
Parāone name (transliterations of the English name "Brown")
hāuratea noun (colour)
pākā noun (colour)

Navajo

2 entries

dibéłchíʼí noun (colour)
yishtłizh noun (colour)

Nepali

1 entries

खैरो adj (having a brown colour)

Northern Kurdish

4 entries

qehwerengî adj (having a brown colour)
qehweyî adj (having a brown colour)
çakar adj (having a brown colour)
qehwerengî noun (colour)

Norwegian

2 entries

Brun name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)
Bruun name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

brun adj (having a brown colour)
mørkbrun adj (having a brown colour)
mørkebrun adj (having a brown colour)
brun noun (colour)

Norwegian Nynorsk

3 entries

brun adj (having a brown colour)
mørkbrun adj (having a brown colour)
mørkebrun adj (having a brown colour)

Occitan

4 entries

brun adj (having a brown colour)
burèl adj (having a brown colour)
maurèl adj (having a brown colour)
castanh noun (colour)

Ojibwe

1 entries

ozaawaanzan noun (colour)

Old English

3 entries

brūn adj (having a brown colour)
eorp adj (having a brown colour)
brun noun (colour)

Old French

1 entries

brun noun (colour)

Old Frisian

1 entries

brūn noun (colour)

Old High German

1 entries

brūn noun (colour)

Old Saxon

1 entries

brūn noun (colour)

Oromo

2 entries

magaala adj (having a brown colour)
magaala noun (colour)

Ossetian

1 entries

морӕ noun (colour)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

قوكور adj (having a brown colour)
اوتولمك verb (to cook until brown)

Pannonian Rusyn

2 entries

браон adj (having a brown colour)
кафови adj (having a brown colour)

Papiamentu

1 entries

bruin adj (having a brown colour)

Pashto

4 entries

بور adj (having a brown colour)
نسواري adj (having a brown colour)
بور noun (colour)
نسواري noun (colour)

Persian

2 entries

براون name (transliterations of the English name "Brown")
قهوهای شدن verb (to become brown)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

brun (nds) adj (having a brown colour)

Polish

4 entries

brązowy adj (having a brown colour)
Brązowski name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)
brąz noun (colour)
brązowieć verb (to become brown)

Portuguese

4 entries

castanho adj (having a brown colour)
marrom adj (having a brown colour)
Castanho name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)
Moreno name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)

Quechua

2 entries

ch'umpi adj (having a brown colour)
sañi adj (having a brown colour)

Romanian

4 entries

brun adj (having a brown colour)
maro adj (having a brown colour)
brun noun (colour)
maro noun (colour)

Romansch

3 entries

bregn adj (having a brown colour)
brin adj (having a brown colour)
brün adj (having a brown colour)

Russian

4 entries

бу́рый adj (having a brown colour)
гнедо́й adj (having a brown colour)
ка́рий adj (having a brown colour)
кашта́новый adj (having a brown colour)

Samoan

1 entries

enaena noun (colour)

Sanskrit

2 entries

कपिला adj (having a brown colour)
श्याव adj (having a brown colour)

Sardinian

1 entries

castàngiu noun (colour)

Scots

2 entries

broon adj (having a brown colour)
broon noun (colour)

Scottish Gaelic

3 entries

donn adj (having a brown colour)
donn noun (colour)
ruadh noun (colour)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

brȁon adj (having a brown colour)
mȑk adj (having a brown colour)
smȅđ adj (having a brown colour)
бра̏он adj (having a brown colour)

Shona

1 entries

mbise noun (colour)

Shor

2 entries

кӱрең adj (having a brown colour)
кӱрең noun (colour)

Sinhalese

1 entries

දුඹුරු adj (having a brown colour)

Slovak

3 entries

hnedý adj (having a brown colour)
hnedá noun (colour)
zhnednúť verb (to become brown)

Slovene

2 entries

rjav adj (having a brown colour)
rjava noun (colour)

Somali

1 entries

boodhe noun (colour)

Southern Altai

1 entries

кӱреҥ noun (colour)

Spanish

4 entries

cafesoso adj (having a brown colour)
café adj (having a brown colour)
castaño adj (having a brown colour)
marrón adj (having a brown colour)

Sranan Tongo

2 entries

broin adj (having a brown colour)
broin noun (colour)

Swahili

1 entries

kahawia noun (colour)

Swazi

1 entries

nsúndvu noun (colour)

Swedish

4 entries

brun adj (having a brown colour)
Brun name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)
Bruun name (surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion)
brun noun (colour)

Tagalog

3 entries

kayumanggi adj (having a brown colour)
kayumanggi noun (colour)
malakalaw noun (colour)

Tahitian

1 entries

'ina'ina noun (colour)

Tajik

3 entries

қаҳвагӣ adj (having a brown colour)
каҳвагӣ noun (colour)
қаҳваранг noun (colour)

Tamil

1 entries

பழுப்பு adj (having a brown colour)

Tarifit

1 entries

aqehwi noun (colour)

Tatar

1 entries

көрән adj (having a brown colour)

Telugu

1 entries

పింగళము adj (having a brown colour)

Thai

2 entries

น้ำตาล adj (having a brown colour)
สีน้ำตาล noun (colour)

Tibetan

2 entries

རྒྱ་སྨུག noun (colour)
སྨུག་པོ noun (colour)

Tigrinya

2 entries

ቡናዊ adj (having a brown colour)
ቡናዊ noun (colour)

Tofa

1 entries

һүреӈ noun (colour)

Tok Pisin

2 entries

braun noun (colour)
braunpela noun (colour)

Tongan

2 entries

melomelo noun (colour)
palauni noun (colour)

Turkish

4 entries

kahverengi adj (having a brown colour)
kahverengi noun (colour)
kongur noun (colour)
konur noun (colour)

Turkmen

2 entries

goňur adj (having a brown colour)
go–ur adj (having a brown colour)

Tuvan

1 entries

хүрең noun (colour)

Udmurt

2 entries

курень adj (having a brown colour)
курень noun (colour)

Ukrainian

4 entries

бу́рий adj (having a brown colour)
ка́рий adj (having a brown colour)
кашта́новий adj (having a brown colour)
кори́чневий adj (having a brown colour)

Urdu

2 entries

بُھورا adj (having a brown colour)
بُھورا noun (colour)

Urum

2 entries

конур noun (colour)
кӱрен noun (colour)

Uyghur

2 entries

قوڭۇر adj (having a brown colour)
قوڭۇر noun (colour)

Uzbek

2 entries

qoʻngʻir adj (having a brown colour)
jigarrang noun (colour)

Vietnamese

3 entries

nâu adj (having a brown colour)
nâu noun (colour)
trở nên màu nâu verb (to become brown)

Volapük

4 entries

blonik adj (having a brown colour)
braunik adj (having a brown colour)
blon noun (colour)
braun noun (colour)

Welsh

2 entries

brown adj (having a brown colour)
brown noun (colour)

West-Frisian

1 entries

brún adj (having a brown colour)

Western Mari

1 entries

кӹрӓн adj (having a brown colour)

Yakut

1 entries

күрэҥ noun (colour)

Yiddish

2 entries

ברוין adj (having a brown colour)
ברוינען זיך verb (to become brown)

Yoruba

1 entries

pupa noun (colour)

Sample sentences

37 total sentences available.

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May I talk to Ms. Brown?

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Mr Brown took charge of this class last year.

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She was very brown after her holiday.

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Here comes our teacher, Robert Brown.

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Brown

Synonyms for "brown" (202 found)

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Afrikaans

Akan

Albanian

Amharic

Ancient Greek

Arabic

Aragonese

Armenian

Aromanian

Assamese

Asturian

Azerbaijani

Bashkir

Basque

Belarusian

Bengali

Bhojpuri

Bislama

Breton

Bulgarian

Burmese

Catalan

Central Kurdish

Central Sierra Miwok

Cherokee

Chichewa

Chickasaw

Chinese Cantonese

Chinese Mandarin

Chuvash

Cornish

Crimean Tatar

Czech

Danish

Dari

Dutch

Dutch Low Saxon

Esperanto

Estonian

Faroese

Fijian

Finnish

French

Galician

Georgian

German

Greek

Greenlandic

Gujarati

Hebrew

Hiligaynon

Hindi

Hopi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Ido

Igbo

Indonesian

Ingush

Iranian Persian

Iranun

Irish

Italian