noun

• (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
  "The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel."
• (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
• (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
• (slang, archaic, countable) A copper coin.
  "“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.”"

adj

• (obsolete) Gloomy.
• (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
  "Reminds me of the time they asked me and a group of other Latino, predominantly Mexican, friends for our passports when we tried to go to their [expletive] party a little over a year ago.[…] The saddest part is that I don’t think they understand why it’s insulting to ask a brown person for a passport."
• (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
• (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
  "I think they sort of realized like, oh, we have Aasif who is a Muslim, an American, brown person, you know, who can sit on that fence between cultures and sort of talk about what it is--what this is from the perspective of being an insider and an outsider at the same time.[…] I think there is in the sort of South Asian, you know, psyche, a kind of adoration of Western ideals and culture that was sort of implanted into us by the British, you know, and this idea that everything that is Western is superior and better than what we have and what India--you know, what is true to our own culture."

verb

• (intransitive) To become brown.
  "Fry the onions until they brown."
• (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
  "Pound an onion, warm a spoonful of ghee and throw in the onion, brown it slightly, add your curry stuff, brown this till it smells pleasantly, […]"
• (intransitive, transitive) To tan.
  "Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun."
• (transitive) To make brown or dusky.
  "A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves."

name

• (countable) A surname.
  "(The Browns gave the Obamas an ornate penholder made from the timber of a Victorian antislave ship.)"
• (countable) A surname.
• (countable) A surname.