A proper noun "brown" represents various locales and communities in the united states, including unincorporated communities in california, louisiana, oklahoma, and west virginia, a ghost town in nevada, and several townships.
Brown University.
Alternative letter-case form of brown (“person with a dark complexion”)
(chiefly US, often Canada and UK) Alternative letter-case form of brown (“of a dark complexion”)
(countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
(snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
(uncountable) Black tar heroin.
A brown horse or other animal.
(sometimes capitalised, countable, informal) A person of Latino, Middle Eastern or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).
(entomology) Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
(informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
(hunting, as "the brown") A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
(intransitive) To become brown.
(cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
(intransitive, transitive) To tan.
(transitive) To make brown or dusky.
(transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
(demography, transitive, intransitive, slang, ethnic slur, usually derogatory, offensive) To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
Having a brown colour.
(sometimes capitalized) An adjective "brown" is used to describe various ethnic groups with dark pigmentation of the skin, including latinos, south asians, and southeast asians of east-eurasian ancestry.