Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun browning

4 senses of browning

Sense 1
Browning, John M. Browning, John Moses Browning -- (United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926))
       INSTANCE OF=> inventor, discoverer, artificer -- (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

Sense 2
Browning, Robert Browning -- (English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889))
       INSTANCE OF=> poet -- (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Sense 3
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- (English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861))
       INSTANCE OF=> poet -- (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Sense 4
toasting, browning -- (cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill; "proper toasting should brown both sides of a piece of bread")
       => cooking, cookery, preparation -- (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb brown

2 senses of brown

Sense 1
brown -- (fry in a pan until it changes color; "brown the meat in the pan")
       => cook -- (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes")

Sense 2
embrown, brown -- (make brown in color; "the draught browned the leaves on the trees in the yard")
       => color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in -- (add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film")