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How to pronounce “brown”

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Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of brown with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Good Eats 3, The Later Years>>Alton Brown: I got my oven back.
Definition summary: (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.

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How to pronounce brown

Good Eats 3, The Later Years

>>Alton Brown: I got my oven back.

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Meaning

[Noun]
(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.
(slang, archaic, countable) A copper coin.
A brown horse or other animal.
(sometimes capitalised, countable, informal, ethnic slur) A person of mostly Latin American (or Latino), Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, and sometimes Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or rarely Native American descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto, or biracial appearance.
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae), 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.
[Adjective]
Having a brown colour.
(obsolete) Gloomy.
(sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
Not green (environmentally irresponsible); anti-green (against environmental protection).
[Verb]
(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.

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How to pronounce “brown”

Pronunciation guide for brown

How to pronounce brown

Example Sentences

>>Alton Brown: I got my oven back.

to spend more time with Leanne Brown.

DANIELLE BROWN: Well, I think if you ever

CHARL BROWN: My name is Charl Brown,

JOSH BROWN: Thank you, thank you.

candidate -- a Democratic candidate for governor, Jerry Brown.

artist and a wellness entrepreneur, Bobbi Brown.

Our guest Derren Brown is a best-selling author,

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