Brown

adj. having a brown coloring; suntanned; thoughtful, pensive

n. color brown; suntan; half penny (coin)

v. make brown, make golden; fry, saute

n. family name

n. large Ivy League university located in Providence (Rhode Island, USA)

Brown, when used as a general term, is a color which is a dark yellow, orange, or red, of low luminance relative to lighter or white colored objects. Some pale orange and yellow colors of lower saturation are called light browns.
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Brown, Michael Born 1941. American geneticist. He shared a 1985 Nobel Prize for discoveries related to cholesterol metabolism. brown 1. [more]Brown - Community and Resources

Noun
1. Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
(synonym) Robert Brown
(hypernym) botanist, phytologist, plant scientist
2. abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)
(synonym) John Brown
(hypernym) abolitionist, emancipationist
3. a university in Rhode Island
(synonym) Brown University
(hypernym) university
(member-holonym) Ivy League
(part-holonym) Rhode Island, Little Rhody, Ocean State, RI

Noun
1. an orange of low brightness and saturation
(synonym) brownness
(hypernym) chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
(hyponym) Vandyke brown
Verb
1. fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan"
(hypernym) cook
(derivation) brownness
(classification) cooking, cookery, preparation
Adjective
1. of a color similar to that of wood or earth
(synonym) brownish, dark-brown
(similar) chromatic

n. Brown, large Ivy League university located in Providence (Rhode Island, USA); family name