Definition

pronoun

A surname​.

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In Europe, a small, semi-automatic handgun. For the first half-century of their manufacturer, the majority of semi-automatic handguns in Europe were designed by John M. Browning.

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Robert Browning, a poet.

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verb

Present participle of brown.

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Synonyms:
noun
The act or operation of giving a brown colour, as to gun barrels, etc.
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(masonry) A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.

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Synonyms:
  • John M. Browning
  • John Moses Browning
  • robert browning
  • elizabeth barrett browning
  • toasting
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Other Word Forms of

Noun

Singular:
Plural:
brownings

Origin of

  • Old English Brūning, a patronymic for a person nicknamed Brūn (“brown”).

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Sentence Examples

  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote sonnets to " the large-brained woman and large-hearted man, self-named George Sand."

  • His Political Memoranda were edited by Oscar Browning for the Camden Society in 1884, and there are eight volumes of his official correspondence in the British Museum.

  • Browning reasons as far as he can; if reasoning fails him, he gives a leap of faith.

  • The Robert Browning Settlement was founded in York Street, Walworth Road, in 1895 and incorporated in 1903, and in Nelson Square is the Women's University Settlement.

  • In 1870 he published a volume of criticism, The Poetry of the Period, which was again conceived in a spirit of satirical invective, and attacked Tennyson, Browning, Matthew Arnold and Swinburne in no half-hearted fashion.

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