Brown vs Golden - What's the difference?
brown | golden |
A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
Black tar heroin.
(sometimes capitalised) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance
Having a brown colour.
(obsolete) Gloomy.
To become brown.
(cooking) To cook something until it becomes brown.
To tan.
To make brown or dusky.
* Barlow
To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
Made of, or relating to, gold.
Having a colour or other richness suggestive of gold.
Marked by prosperity, creativity etc.
Advantageous or very favourable.
Relating to a fiftieth anniversary.
To become golden (in colour).
To make golden or like gold.
* 1994 , Marion H. Hedges, Iron City :
As proper nouns the difference between brown and golden
is that brown is while golden is .brown
English
(wikipedia brown)Noun
(en noun)- The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
Adjective
(en-adj)Antonyms
* (having brown as its colour) nonbrownDescendants
* American Sign Language:Verb
(en verb)- Fry the onions until they brown .
- Brown the onions in a large frying pan.
- Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
- A trembling twilight o'er the welkin moves, / Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
- (Ure)
- the browning of America
Derived terms
(terms derived from "brown") * brown adipose tissue * brown ale * brown bastard * brown bear * Brown Bess * Brown Betty * brown-bill * brown bread * brown coal * brown dwarf * brown earth * brown falcon * brown fat * brown goods * brown hawk * brown lacewing * brown lung * brown mustard * brown note * brown paper * brown patch * brown rat * brown rice * brown rot * brown sauce * Brown Shirt * brown sugar * Brown Swiss * brown thrasher * brown trout * brown-bag * brown-bagger * browned off * brownfield * brownie * Brownie point * brownish * brownnose * brownout * brownprint * brownstone * embrown * golden brown * hash browns * meadow brown * nut-borwn * Vandyke brownSee also
* golding * 1000 English basic words ----golden
English
Alternative forms
* goulden (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- She wore a golden crown.
- Under a golden sun.
- The Renaissance was a golden era.
- the Golden Horseshoe
- This is a golden opportunity
- It's not long until our golden wedding.
Derived terms
* golden age * golden-ager * golden Alexanders * golden anniversary * golden aster * golden balls * golden boot * golden boy * golden brown * golden calf * golden chain * golden club * golden contact * Golden Delicious * golden eagle * goldeneye * Golden Fleece * Golden Gate Bridge * golden girl * golden glow * golden goose * golden hamster * golden handcuffs * golden handshake * golden hello * Golden Horde * Golden Horn * Golden Horseshoe * golden jubilee * golden lion tamarin * golden mean * golden nematode * golden number * golden oldie * golden opinions * golden opportunity * golden oriole * golden parachute * golden perch * golden pheasant * golden plover * golden rectangle * golden retriever * golden rice * golden robin * goldenrod * golden rule * goldenseal * golden section * golden share * golden shiner * golden shower * golden staph * Golden State * golden syrup * golden ticket * golden triangle * golden wattle * golden wedding, golden wedding anniversary * golden years * silence is goldenVerb
(en verb)- It goldened', as nothing else ' goldened , the commonplace countryside.
