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Word entry · 5 letters

brown

Best crossword clue

"Chestnut color"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈbɹaʊ̯n/Part of speech adjective, verb, nounSorted bnorwStarts with BEnds with N3 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. (of skin) deeply suntanned

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-. Doublet of bruin.

Used in a sentence

  • The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
  • He wore brown jeans for his birthday.
  • “To save a journey up the town, / A razor lent here for a brown: / But if you think the price too high, / I beg you won’t the razor try.”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues

01Chestnut color5 letters
02Chocolate color5 letters
03Earthy color5 letters

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