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auburn

noun
/ˈɔ.bɚn/US/ˈɑ.bɚn//ˈɔːbə(ɹ)n/

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.

  1. derived from albus
  2. derived from alburnus
  3. derived from auborne
  4. inherited from aubourne

Definitions

  1. A dark reddish-brown colour, often used to describe hair colour.

  2. Of a reddish-brown colour.

    • […]; 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

  3. A female given name.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A surname.

    2. Any of several towns or cities in the United States.

    3. A suburb of Sydney in the Cumberland council area, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.

    4. A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.

    5. 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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA