BRUNETTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brunette mean? 

• BRUNETTE (noun)
  The noun BRUNETTE has 1 sense:

1. a person with dark (brown) hair

  Familiarity information: BRUNETTE used as a noun is very rare.

• BRUNETTE (adjective)
  The adjective BRUNETTE has 1 sense:

1. marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes

  Familiarity information: BRUNETTE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRUNETTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person with dark (brown) hair

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

brunet; brunette

Hypernyms ("brunette" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

• BRUNETTE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes

Synonyms:

brunet; brunette

Context example:

a brunette beauty

Similar:

adust (burned brown by the sun)

bronzed; suntanned; tanned ((of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun)

brown; browned ((of skin) deeply suntanned)

dark (brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes))

black-haired; brown-haired; dark-haired (having hair of a dark color)

dark-skinned; dusky; swart; swarthy (naturally having skin of a dark color)

grizzled (having dark hairs mixed with grey or white)

nutbrown (of the color of nuts)

Attribute:

complexion; skin color; skin colour (the coloring of a person's face)

 Context examples 

A knock and an answer opened it, and Martin found himself shaking hands with Kreis, a handsome brunette man, with dazzling white teeth, a drooping black mustache, and large, flashing black eyes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Here too were the beautiful brunettes of the Gironde, with eyes which out-flashed their jewels, while beside them rode their blonde sisters of England, clear cut and aquiline, swathed in swans'-down and in ermine, for the air was biting though the sun was bright.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)