Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or relating to any person bearing the name of Brown; Brownian.
- noun A student or graduate of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or invented by,
Brown ; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by JohnBrown , of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation.
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Examples
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Coming from a line of Brunonians based in Providence — her father, a Rhode Island legislator and owner of a coal yard, went to Brown, as did her three brothers and uncle — she decided “pretty early on that she wanted to have” the education that all of the men in her family had.
Annie Smith Peck: the Brown student who should have been, but never was Benjamin Pollard 2021
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