auburn
A dark reddish-brown colour, often used to describe hair colourA dark reddish-brown colour, often used to describe hair colour.
» She's got beautiful long auburn hair.
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1 senses(countable, uncountable)A dark reddish-brown colour, often used to describe hair colour.
Rotbraun, Kastanienbraun
кра́сно-кори́чневыйkrásno-koríčnevyj, тёмно-ры́жийtjómno-rýžij
Examples
5 sentencesShe's got beautiful long auburn hair.
I love your partially-grayed auburn hair.
Edmundo had green eyes and auburn hair.
Jane has auburn hair.
deJane hat rotbraunes Haar. — Dani6187
Jamin's auburn locks cascade down their shoulders, adding an air of elegance to their appearance.
Translations
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Origin
Early Modern English auburn (“brown, reddish brown”) from Middle English aubourne, abron,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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Forms
plural: auburnsSynonyms
2 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.