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What does brown mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word brown? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
  2. (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
  3. (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
  4. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
Adjective
  1. Having a brown colour.
  2. (obsolete) Gloomy.
  3. (capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To become brown.
  2. (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
  3. (intransitive, transitive) To tan.
  4. (transitive) To make brown or dusky.
  5. (transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
  6. (ethnic) To turn progressively more Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
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