tawny

«tawny» in Mova's school dictionary: Tawny describes a warm orange-brown or yellowish-brown… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (tawny, tawnier, tawniest); noun (tawny — rare)

meaning for a pupil

1) Tawny describes a warm orange-brown or yellowish-brown colour, like a lion's fur. tree →

2) A tawny owl is a common brown owl in Britain and Europe. tree →

3) Tawny port is a kind of brown wine (for adults). tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in stories and descriptions of animals, autumn leaves and hair; in science lessons about British wildlife, the tawny owl («twit-twoo» calls); it tells the reader about colour.

examples

• The lion shook its tawny mane. tree →
• A tawny owl hooted in the woods at night. tree →
• Her tawny hair glowed in the sunshine. tree →
• The hills were tawny with dry grass. tree →
• The tawny frogmouth is an Australian bird. tree →
• Oh, come with me, Connla of the Fiery Hair, ruddy as the dawn with thy tawny skin. tree →

note

Mostly used before a noun: «a tawny cat». Fun fact: the famous «twit-twoo» is often two tawny owls calling to each other, a female «twit» and a male «twoo».

In the corpora

• Then they chatter of «violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls» (tawny = golden brown).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tawny» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.