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browning

/ˈbɹaʊ.nɪŋ/noun2 syllables

Browning means: United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926).

Synonyms for browning6

noun, as in United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)

John Browning, John M. Browning, John Moses Browning

noun, as in English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)

Robert Browning

noun, as in English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

noun, as in cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill

toasting

What does browning mean?4

noun

1

United States inventor of firearms (especially automatic pistols and repeating rifles and a machine gun called the Peacemaker) (1855-1926)

2

English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)

3

English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)

4

cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill“proper toasting should brown both sides of a piece of bread”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with browning?3

two syllables

drowningdowningcrowning
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Browning in a sentence

  • The medlars started browning and bletting on the tree.Amastan
  • Ziri's ivy had some browning leaves.Amastan

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of browning

as a noun

plural
brownings