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brown-eyed

brown-eyed adjective: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brown, eyed; having brown eyes.

Adjective

brown-eyed (not comparable)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brown, eyed; having brown eyes.
  2. Characteristic of or pertaining to people of color.
    • While Aretha Franklin was brown-eyed soul, her protégée Adele is blue-eyed soul.
    • Brown-eyed women and red grenadine the bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean1971, Robert Hunter, Brown-eyed women (Grateful Dead song)

brown-eyed meaning in Punjabi

brown-eyed in Punjabi

brown-eyed
ਬਿੱਲਾ billā

Examples of brown-eyed in a sentence

  • El Chicano's "Viva Tirado" not only helps excavate the roots of brown-eyed soul, the group and 1960s scene reveal the complexity of the period in which brown-eyed soul flourished.2012, Brian D Behnken, The Struggle in Black and Brown, page 222:
  • The judge's wife called up the district attorney, Said, 'You free that brown-eyed man!2015, Andrew Ford, Earth Dances: Music in Search of the Primitive:
  • The concept of brown-eyed children originates from Parker's perspective (1918) that the birth and influence of brown-eyed children has been instrumental in building civilizations.2016, Frank Hernandez, Elizabeth T. Murakami, BrownEyed Leaders of the Sun:

Forms of brown-eyed

alternative formbrowneyed

Words formed from brown-eyed

Phrases with brown-eyed

Questions about brown-eyed

What does brown-eyed mean?
Brown-eyed means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brown, eyed; having brown eyes.
What is brown-eyed in Punjabi?
Brown-eyed in Punjabi is ਬਿੱਲਾ (billā). See Brown-eyed meaning in Punjabi.
How do you use brown-eyed in a sentence?
El Chicano's "Viva Tirado" not only helps excavate the roots of brown-eyed soul, the group and 1960s scene reveal the complexity of the period in which brown-eyed soul flourished.
What part of speech is brown-eyed?
Brown-eyed is an adjective.

Words near brown-eyed in the dictionary

  1. brown-bill
  2. brown-billed scythebill
  3. brown-billed scythebills
  4. brown-bills
  5. brown-brown
  6. brown-eyed
  7. brown-eyed soul
  8. brown-eyed Susan
  9. brown-eyed Susans
  10. brown-haired
  11. brown-marbled grouper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brown-eyed (page history and authors); ਬਿੱਲਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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