Brown

brown English + (surname) <dab!> Etymology From en enm Broun, originally a nickname for someone with en brown hair or a dark complexion. In the United States, sometimes an anglicization and translation of en de Braun. en Bruno Braun. Pronunciation en /bɹaʊn/ en En-Brown.ogg en aʊn 1 Proper noun ~ s en countable en. en 03-04-2009 Helene Cooper Obama’s Star Turn at Summit Gets Mixed Results w:The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/world/europe/03assess.html (The Browns gave the Obamas an ornate penholder made from the timber of a Victorian antislave ship.) https://web.archive.org/web/20220226155500/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/world/europe/03assess.html en Oscar Kightley New Zealand Herald 10-10-2010 After 170 years this is the closest Auckland has come to having a brown mayor. Sure he's a Palagi. But his name is Brown, he's run Manukau for a long time and there's heaps of brown people there so he's gladly owned by many in the Pacific Community. en Dave Davies Has Tucker Carlson created the most racist show in the history of cable news? w:NPR https://www.npr.org/2022/05/12/1098488908/has-tucker-carlson-created-the-most-racist-show-in-the-history-of-cable-news 2022-05-12 w:Nicholas Confessore In his cast of characters, you really see a disproportionate focus, I think, on Black women - on Kamala Harris, who he's insinuated only has her job today because of who she dated; to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who he's demanded the LSAT scores of - I don't recall him demanding the LSAT scores for Brett Kavanaugh - Karine Jean-Pierre. https://web.archive.org/web/20230628114636/https://www.npr.org/2022/05/12/1098488908/has-tucker-carlson-created-the-most-racist-show-in-the-history-of-cable-news en English and Scottish nicknames. en Irish of Anglo-Norman origin, a translation of ga de Brún. en locale c/US. en ucomm s/California ; named for hotelier George Brown. en ucomm s/Louisiana ; named for landowner George W. Brown. en ucomm s/Oklahoma ; named for postmaster Robert H. Brown. en ucomm s/West Virginia ; named for early settler John Brown. en ghost town s/Nevada. en A number of <<townships>> in the <<c/USA>>, listed under Brown Township. en Universities Brown University. Alternative forms surname en Browne Broun Derived terms en Brown clustering Brown County Brownist Brownism Brownite Brownian Brown's Town Brownie Browny Brownsboro Browns Creek Browns Mills Browns Mountain Brownsville Brown-Séquard's hemiplegia Brown-Séquard's paralysis Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effect Translations transliterations of the English name "Brown" Arabic: ar بْرَاوْن Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 布朗 Bùlǎng Esperanto: eo Braŭno Greek: el Μπράουν Hebrew: he בראון Hindi: hi ब्राउन Japanese: ja ブラウン Buraun Korean: ko ^브라운 Māori: mi Parāone Persian: fa براون Russian: ru Бра́ун m f, ru Бро́ун m f traditional form for some famous people surname meaning "brown", or indicating a dark complexion Afrikaans: af de Bruyn, af de Bruyns, af Bruyn, af Bruyns, af de Bruin, af de Bruins Catalan: ca Bru Danish: da Brun, da Bruun Dutch: nl Bruin, nl Bruijn, nl Bruyn, nl Bruyns, nl Bruins, nl de Bruyne, nl de Bruyn, nl de Bruin, nl de Bruine, nl de Bruijn, nl de Bruijne Finnish: fi Rusko French: fr Lebrun, fr Brun, fr Brunet German: de Braun, de Braune, de Brun, de Brune, de Bruhn Greek: el Καστανός m Hungarian: hu Barna Italian: it Bruno, it Bruni, it Brunetti, it Moro, it Mori, it Marrone, it Mora, it Moretti Norwegian: no Brun, no Bruun Polish: pl Brązowski Portuguese: pt Castanho, pt Moreno Spanish: es Castaño, es Moreno, es Pardo Swedish: sv Brun, sv Bruun Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, Brown is the 4th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1,425,470 individuals. Brown is most common among White (58.0%) and Black/African American (35.6%) individuals. Noun en brown person with a dark complexion. Adjective en chiefly US often Canada and UK en brown of a dark complexion. See also en Browne French Etymology fr :bor en:Brown fr en Brown. Pronunciation brawn + Proper noun fr English Scots Proper noun sco