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"BROWNS" is a plural of: brown. |
Date "BROWNS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Browns To astonish the Browns. To do or say something regardless of the annoyance it may cause or the shock it may give to Mrs. Grundy. Anne Boleyn had a whole host of Browns, or "country cousins," who were welcomed at Court in the reign of Elizabeth. The queen, however, was quick to see what was gauche, and did not scruple to reprove the Browns if she noticed anything in their conduct not comme il faut. Her bluntness of speech often "astonished the Browns." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Browns, Illinois."
Crosswords: BROWNS |
| Specialty definitions using "BROWNS": nickel oxide ♦ Titles with Proper Names. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh Charlie Brown, of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you are the Charlie Brownyest. (A Charlie Brown Christmas; writing credit: Charles M. Schulz) The Browns didn't come to Hill Valley until 1908, and then they were the Von Brauns. (Back to the Future Part III; writing credit: Robert Zemeckis; Bob Gale) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Browns See the Fair (1916) An Unlucky Night at the Browns (1915) The Browns Have Visitors (1912) | |
Song Titles | Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair) (performing artist: The Browns) The Old Lamplighter (performing artist: The Browns) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | St. Louis Browns ... 1942 / Dorrill photo. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Interior of Cup & Saucer Tea Room, Browns Mills in the Pines, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | John Browns Cave near Harpers Ferry. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Operating linotype machine. Office of the Valley News. Browns Valley, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Setting up the front page. Office of the Valley News. Browns Valley, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sawing lead blocks for making cuts. Office of the Valley News. Browns Valley, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dusting off column of type. Office of the Valley News. Browns Valley, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Editor of the Valley News at her desk. Browns Valley, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Browns of 1909. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | St. Louis Browns of 1909. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "BROWNS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 58.48% of the time. "BROWNS" is used about 171 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 58.48% | 100 | 32,668 |
| Noun (proper) | 39.77% | 68 | 40,606 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 1.75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 171 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BROWNS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Browns | Last name | 200 | 34,145 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Browns, IL (village, FIPS 8979) |
Expressions using "BROWNS": browns Lake ♦ browns Mills ♦ browns Summit ♦ browns Valley ♦ hash browns ♦ meadow browns. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "BROWNS": grey-browns, pink-browns, red-browns, russet-browns. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cleveland browns.com | 104 |
browns.com clevland | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BROWNS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 褐色 (Brown, Brownish). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | pommes de terre hachées brunes l'américaine (hash browns, hashed brown potatoes). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | legt rein (spoofs). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | brown gyerekek (little browns). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 갈색 (Brown, Browner, Brownest, Brownish). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ownsbray зytmak (frown, knit the browns, wrinkle 1). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BROWNS": brownshirt, brownshirts, brownstone, brownstones. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "BROWNS": embrowns, imbrowns. (additional references) | |
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"BROWNS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bowens, brons, bronz, broons, Brosna, browne, browni, Brownsey. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BROWNS" (pronounced brou"nz) |
| 4 | -r ou" n z | crowns, drowns, frowns. |
| 3 | -ou" n z | clowns, downs, gowns, towns. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-n-o-r-s-w" | |
-1 letter: brown, brows, sworn. | |
-2 letters: born, bows, bros, brow, nobs, nows, orbs, owns, robs, rows, snob, snow, sorb, sorn, sown, swob, wons, worn. | |
-3 letters: bos, bow, bro, nob, nor, nos, now, ons, orb, ors, own, rob, row, sob, son, sow, won, wos. | |
-4 letters: bo, no, on, or, os, ow, so, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-n-o-r-s-w" | |
+2 letters: bestrown, brownest, brownies, brownish, browsing, embrowns, imbrowns, newborns, rainbows, rubdowns, snowbird. | |
+3 letters: bowstring, browbands, browniest, brownnose, brownouts, downburst, jawboners, snowberry, snowbirds, snowboard, snowbrush. | |
+4 letters: bestrowing, blindworms, borrowings, bowstrings, breakdowns, bringdowns, brownnosed, brownnoser, brownnoses, brownshirt, brownstone, downbursts, scrubwoman, scrubwomen, snowblower, snowboards, subnetwork, warbonnets. | |
+5 letters: brainpowers, brownfields, brownnosers, brownnosing, brownshirts, brownstones, crossbowman, crossbowmen, handbarrows, marrowbones, mindblowers, pawnbrokers, snowberries, snowblowers, snowboarder, snowbrushes, snowmobiler, subnetworks, unworkables, workbenches. | |
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