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{
"term": "brown",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "having the colour of earth or coffee",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "**brown eyes/hair**"
},
{
"text": "brown bread/sugar/rice"
},
{
"text": "**dark brown** shoe polish"
},
{
"text": "a package wrapped in brown paper"
},
{
"text": "Soon the yellow leaves will turn brown."
},
{
"text": "Henry has short **light brown** hair and green eyes."
},
{
"text": "Bake for 20 minutes until golden brown."
},
{
"text": "The once-green fields were now uniformly brown."
},
{
"text": "a lovely warm brown colour"
},
{
"text": "her dark brown eyes"
},
{
"text": "monkeys with bright brown fur"
},
{
"text": "bright brown eyes"
}
],
"topics": ["Colours and Shapes"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["very", "uniformly"],
"adjective": ["dark", "deep", "light"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "having skin that is naturally brown or has been made brown by the sun",
"labels": "(British English)",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I don't go brown very easily."
},
{
"text": "After the summer in Spain, the children were **brown as berries**."
},
{
"text": "He looked very brown after the cruise."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["very", "uniformly"],
"adjective": ["dark", "deep", "light"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "thinking deeply so that you do not notice what is happening around you",
"labels": "(old-fashioned, British English)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/braʊn/",
"audio": "br/brown/brown_1_gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/braʊn/",
"audio": "br/brown/brown__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English brūn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bruin and German braun."
}