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brown
Overview of noun brown
The noun brown has 4 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) brown, brownness -- (an orange of low brightness and saturation)
2. Brown, Robert Brown -- (Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858))
3. Brown, John Brown -- (abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858))
4. Brown University, Brown -- (a university in Rhode Island)
Overview of verb brown
The verb brown has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) brown -- (fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan")
Overview of adj brown
The adj brown has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (38) brown, brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown -- (of a color similar to that of wood or earth)
2. brown, browned -- ((of skin) deeply suntanned)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun brown
4 senses of brown
Sense 1
brown, brownness
=> chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
=> color, colour, coloring, colouring
=> visual property
=> property
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
Brown, Robert Brown
INSTANCE OF=> botanist, phytologist, plant scientist
=> biologist, life scientist
=> scientist, man of science
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
Brown, John Brown
INSTANCE OF=> abolitionist, emancipationist
=> reformer, reformist, crusader, social reformer, meliorist
=> disputant, controversialist, eristic
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 4
Brown University, Brown
INSTANCE OF=> university
=> establishment
=> structure, construction
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun brown
1 of 4 senses of brown
Sense 1
brown, brownness
=> 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
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun brown
4 senses of brown
Sense 1
brown, brownness
=> chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
Sense 2
Brown, Robert Brown
INSTANCE OF=> botanist, phytologist, plant scientist
Sense 3
Brown, John Brown
INSTANCE OF=> abolitionist, emancipationist
Sense 4
Brown University, Brown
INSTANCE OF=> university
Antonyms of noun brown
Member Holonyms of noun brown
1 of 4 senses of brown
Sense 4
Brown University, Brown
MEMBER OF: Ivy League
Substance Holonyms of noun brown
Part Holonyms of noun brown
1 of 4 senses of brown
Sense 4
Brown University, Brown
PART OF: Rhode Island, Little Rhody, Ocean State, RI
Member Meronyms of noun brown
Substance Meronyms of noun brown
Part Meronyms of noun brown
Meronyms of noun brown
Holonyms of noun brown
1 of 4 senses of brown
Sense 4
Brown University, Brown
MEMBER OF: Ivy League
PART OF: Rhode Island, Little Rhody, Ocean State, RI
Attributes of noun brown
Derived Forms of noun brown
1 of 4 senses of brown
Sense 1
brown, brownness
RELATED TO>(verb) brown#1
=> brown
Domain of noun brown
Domain Terms of noun brown
Familiarity of noun brown
brown used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun brown
4 senses of brown
Sense 1
brown, brownness
> chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
=> red, redness
=> orange, orangeness
=> yellow, yellowness
=> blond, blonde
=> green, greenness, viridity
=> blue, blueness
=> purple, purpleness
=> pink
=> brown, brownness
=> olive
=> pastel
=> complementary color, complementary
Sense 2
Brown, Robert Brown
> botanist, phytologist, plant scientist
=> mycologist
=> pomologist
=> propagator
HAS INSTANCE=> Banks, Sir Joseph Banks
HAS INSTANCE=> Brown, Robert Brown
HAS INSTANCE=> Carver, George Washington Carver
HAS INSTANCE=> Cohn, Ferdinand Julius Cohn
HAS INSTANCE=> Curtis, William Curtis
HAS INSTANCE=> deVries, De Vries, Hugo deVries, Hugo De Vries
HAS INSTANCE=> Gray, Asa Gray
HAS INSTANCE=> Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
HAS INSTANCE=> Linnaeus, Carolus Linnaeus, Carl von Linne, Karl Linne
HAS INSTANCE=> Mendel, Gregor Mendel, Johann Mendel
HAS INSTANCE=> Tradescant, John Tradescant
Sense 3
Brown, John Brown
> abolitionist, emancipationist
HAS INSTANCE=> Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher
HAS INSTANCE=> Brown, John Brown
HAS INSTANCE=> Douglass, Frederick Douglass
HAS INSTANCE=> Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison
HAS INSTANCE=> Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
HAS INSTANCE=> Tappan, Arthur Tappan
HAS INSTANCE=> Truth, Sojourner Truth
HAS INSTANCE=> Tubman, Harriet Tubman
HAS INSTANCE=> Weld, Theodore Dwight Weld
Sense 4
Brown University, Brown
> university
HAS INSTANCE=> Brown University, Brown
HAS INSTANCE=> Cambridge University, Cambridge
HAS INSTANCE=> Carnegie Mellon University
=> city university
HAS INSTANCE=> Columbia University, Columbia
HAS INSTANCE=> Cooper Union, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
HAS INSTANCE=> Cornell University
HAS INSTANCE=> Duke University
HAS INSTANCE=> Harvard University, Harvard
HAS INSTANCE=> Johns Hopkins
HAS INSTANCE=> Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
HAS INSTANCE=> Ohio State University
=> Oxbridge
HAS INSTANCE=> Oxford University, Oxford
HAS INSTANCE=> Paris University, University of Paris, Sorbonne
HAS INSTANCE=> Princeton University, Princeton
=> redbrick university
HAS INSTANCE=> Stanford University, Stanford
HAS INSTANCE=> University of California at Berkeley
HAS INSTANCE=> University of Chicago
HAS INSTANCE=> University of Michigan
HAS INSTANCE=> University of Nebraska
HAS INSTANCE=> University of North Carolina
HAS INSTANCE=> University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Penn
HAS INSTANCE=> University of Pittsburgh
HAS INSTANCE=> University of Sussex, Sussex University
HAS INSTANCE=> University of Texas
HAS INSTANCE=> University of Vermont
HAS INSTANCE=> University of Washington
HAS INSTANCE=> University of West Virginia
HAS INSTANCE=> University of Wisconsin
HAS INSTANCE=> Yale University, Yale
Meronyms of noun brown
1 of 4 senses of brown
Sense 1
brown, brownness
=> chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
HAS SUBSTANCE: saturation, chroma, intensity, vividness
Holonyms of noun brown
1 of 4 senses of brown
Sense 4
Brown University, Brown
MEMBER OF: Ivy League
PART OF: Rhode Island, Little Rhody, Ocean State, RI
PART OF: New England
PART OF: United States, United States of America, America, the States, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.
PART OF: North America
PART OF: western hemisphere, occident, New World
PART OF: northern hemisphere
PART OF: America
Grep of noun brown
alaskan brown bear
big brown bat
boston brown bread
brown
brown-tail moth
brown algae
brown ash
brown bat
brown bear
brown bells
brown bent
brown betty
brown bread
brown bullhead
brown butter
brown coal
brown creeper
brown cup
brown hickory
brown hyena
brown lacewing
brown lemming
brown oak
brown onion sauce
brown pine
brown rat
brown rice
brown root rot fungus
brown rot
brown rot gummosis
brown sauce
brown snail
brown soft scale
brown study
brown sugar
brown swiss
brown thrasher
brown thrush
brown trout
brown university
browne
brownian motion
brownian movement
brownie
brownie mix
browning
browning automatic rifle
browning machine gun
brownish yellow
brownness
brownout
brownshirt
brownstone
brownsville
browntail
caramel brown
chinese brown sauce
deep brown
european brown bat
father brown
grayish brown
greyish brown
john brown
light brown
little brown bat
little brown myotis
lyman frank brown
olive brown
reddish brown
robert brown
vandyke brown
yellowish brown
Antonyms of verb brown
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb brown
1 sense of brown
Sense 1
brown
=> cook
=> change integrity
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb brown
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb brown
1 sense of brown
Sense 1
brown
=> cook
'Cause To' of verb brown
Derived Forms of verb brown
1 sense of brown
Sense 1
brown
RELATED TO>(noun) brown#1
=> brown, brownness
Domain of verb brown
1 sense of brown
Sense 1
brown
TOPIC>(noun) cooking#1, cookery#1, preparation#8
Domain Terms of verb brown
Familiarity of verb brown
brown used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb brown
1 sense of brown
Sense 1
brown
EX: The chefs brown the vegetables
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb brown
1 sense of brown
Sense 1
brown
> cook
=> bake
=> brown
=> coddle
=> souse
=> microwave, micro-cook, zap, nuke
=> blanch, parboil
=> overcook
=> fricassee
=> stew
=> roast
=> braise
=> fry
=> grill
=> steam
=> boil
=> pressure-cook
=> poach
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb brown
Sense 1
brown
=> cook
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Grep of verb brown
brown
brown-nose
embrown
Antonyms of adj brown
2 senses of brown
Sense 1
brown, brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown
INDIRECT (VIA chromatic) -> achromatic
Sense 2
brown, browned
INDIRECT (VIA brunet) -> blond, blonde, light-haired
Similarity of adj brown
2 senses of brown
Sense 1
brown, brownish, chocolate-brown, dark-brown
=> chromatic (vs. achromatic)
Sense 2
brown, browned
=> brunet (vs. blond), brunette
Pertainyms of adj brown
Attributes of adj brown
Domain of adj brown
Domain Terms of adj brown
Familiarity of adj brown
brown used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj brown
blackish-brown
brown
brown-black
brown-gray
brown-green
brown-grey
brown-haired
brown-purple
brown-speckled
brown-striped
browned
browned off
brownish
brownish-black
brownish-gray
brownish-green
brownish-grey
brownish-orange
brownish-purple
brownish-red
brownish-speckled
brownish-striped
brownish-yellow
buff-brown
caramel brown
chestnut-brown
chocolate-brown
chukker-brown
dark-brown
golden-brown
gray-brown
grayish-brown
greenish-brown
grey-brown
greyish-brown
hazel-brown
mummy-brown
nutbrown
olive-brown
orange-brown
purple-brown
purplish-brown
red-brown
reddish-brown
rust-brown
rusty-brown
snuff-brown
tawny-brown
yellow-brown
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