Difference between Brown and Brunette

What is the difference between Brown and Brunette?

Brown as an adjective is having a brown colour. while Brunette as an adjective is of a woman or girl, having brown or black hair.

Brown

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having a brown colour.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To become brown. To cook something until it becomes brown.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A red-orange colour, including the colour of chocolate or coffee. One of the colour balls used in snooker with a value of 4 points.

Example sentence: When my hair was dark for 'House,' that was the hardest to maintain because it was like every three weeks my light roots would start coming in. And you can't really just dye your hair one color brown because then it looks like a helmet on television, so then I had to have four colors of brown woven into my hair every three weeks.

Brunette

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of a woman or girl, having brown or black hair.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A girl or woman with brown or black hair.A white brunette with dark eyes and a relatively dark or olive complexion.

Example sentence: My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.

We hope you now know whether to use Brown or Brunette in your sentence.

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