auburn

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
12
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈɔ.bɚn/(US)
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/ˈɔ.bɚn/(US) · /ˈɑ.bɚn/ · /ˈɔːbə(ɹ)n/

Definition of auburn

37 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A dark reddish-brown colour, often used to describe hair colour.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A dark reddish-brown colour, often used to describe hair colour.

adj

  1. Of a reddish-brown colour.
    “All were watching somebody in the garden with deep interest, their three faces close together: a jovial and round one, a pale one with dark hair, and a fair one whose tresses were auburn. “Don’t push! You can see as well as I,” said Retty, the auburn-haired and youngest girl, without removing her eyes from the window.”
    “[…]; nor was Miss Wilkinson the ideal: he had often pictured to himself the great violet eyes and the alabaster skin of some lovely girl, and he had thought of himself burying his face in the rippling masses of her auburn hair.”
    “I never thought I'd meet a girl like you / Meet a girl like you / With auburn hair and tawny eyes”

name

  1. A female given name.
  2. A surname.
  3. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  4. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  5. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  6. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  7. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  8. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  9. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  10. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  11. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  12. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  13. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  14. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  15. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  16. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  17. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  18. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  19. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  20. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  21. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  22. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  23. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  24. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  25. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  26. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  27. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  28. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  29. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  30. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  31. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  32. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.
  33. A suburb of Sydney in the Cumberland council area, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.
  34. A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
  35. (informal)Auburn University.
    “On Sept. 19, Brilyn Hollyhand, Auburn freshman studying political science, announced his plans to join forces with Turning Point USA (TPUSA) to launch his “One Conversation at a Time” college campus tour.”

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Etymology

Early Modern English auburn (“brown, reddish brown”) from Middle English aubourne, abron, abroune, abrune (“light brown, yellowish brown, blond”), alteration (due to conflation with Middle English brun (“brown”)) of earlier auborne (“yellowish-white, flaxen”) from Old French auborne, alborne (“blond, flaxen, off-white”) from Medieval Latin alburnus (“whitish”), from Latin albus (“white”). More at albino, brown.

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