auburn
Meaning of auburn
adjective
(of hair) of a reddish-brown colour.
noun
a reddish-brown colour.
late Middle English: from Old French auborne, alborne, from Latin alburnus ‘whitish’, from albus ‘white’. The original sense was ‘yellowish white’, but the word became associated with brown because in the 16th and 17th centuries it was often written abrune or abroun .
Information about auburn
- The plural form of auburn is: auburns.
- Languages in which auburn is used:
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Hyphenation of auburn
auburn
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- auburn is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
auburn synonyms
Meaning (of hair) bright golden auburn:
Meaning of an orange-brown or yellowish-brown colour:
Meaning reddish brown in colour:
Meaning a glossy hard brown edible nut which develops within a bristly case and which may be roasted and eaten:
Meaning a red-brown metal, the chemical element of atomic number 29:
Meaning like copper, especially in colour:
Meaning a reddish-brown dye made from the powdered leaves of a tropical shrub, used to colour the hair and decorate the body:
Meaning dye (hair) with henna:
Meaning tinged with red:
Translation of auburn
- German: kastanienbraun
- Italian: ramato
Words that rhyme with auburn
Burn, burn, caburn, Chadburn, Radburn, Woodburn, windburn, Coeburn, Freeburn, Leburn, Raeburn, fireburn, noseburn, poleburn, preburn, reburn, sideburn, braeburn, Ogburn, Pangburn, Ashburn, Washburn, Caliburn, Cliburn, caliburn, Bannockburn, Blackburn, Cockburn, bannockburn, blackburn, Colburn, Elburn, Hillburn, Lilburn, Melburn, Milburn, Millburn, Shelburn, Wilburn, alburn, Glenburn, Minburn, Sanburn, sunburn, unburn, Coburn, Woburn, Hepburn, hepburn, tipburn