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Adjective brown has 1 sense
- brown, brownish, dark-brown - of a color similar to that of wood or earth
Antonym: achromatic (indirect, via chromatic)
Noun brown has 4 senses
- 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 |
- 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
- 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
- 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
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