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BROWNED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does browned mean?
• BROWNED (adjective)
The adjective BROWNED has 1 sense:
1. (of skin) deeply suntanned
Familiarity information: BROWNED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of skin) deeply suntanned
Synonyms:
brown; browned
Similar:
brunet; brunette (marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes)
Context examples
The fat turkey was a sight to behold, when Hannah sent him up, stuffed, browned, and decorated.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Brissenden's face and long, slender hands were browned by the sun—excessively browned, Martin thought.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The Abbot, from his point of vantage, looked down on the two long lines of faces, placid and sun-browned for the most part, with the large bovine eyes and unlined features which told of their easy, unchanging existence.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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