Usually means: Old-fashioned brownish photographic tint.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word Sepia:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. sepia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sepia: Merriam-Webster
  3. Sepia, sepia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sepia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sepia: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Sepia, sepia: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sepia, sepia: Wordnik
  8. sepia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sepia: Wiktionary
  10. sepia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sepia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sepia: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sepia: Dictionary.com
  14. sepia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Sepia (color), Sepia (disambiguation), Sepia (genus), Sepia (magazine), Sepia (restaurant), Sepia (song), Sepia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sepia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sepia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Sepia: Rhymezone
  19. Sepia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sepia: FreeDictionary.org
  21. sepia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. sepia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sepia: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sepia: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Italian Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SEPIA: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. sepia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sepia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SEPIA: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sepia, sepia: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sepia: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sepia)

▸ noun:  (uncountable) A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour.
▸ noun:  (by extension, countable) A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph.
▸ noun:  (archaic, countable) A cuttlefish.
▸ adjective:  Of a dark reddish-brown colour.

Similar:
Venetian red, burnt sienna, genus sepia, reddish brown, nero di seppia, sepiadariid, cuttlefish, sepiostaire, benthic black, cuttle, more...

Opposite:
color, vivid, bright, colorful, vibrant

Types:
brown, tan, beige, burnt sienna, burnt umber, cinnamon, dark brown, dark tan, light brown, more...

Phrases:
sepia tone, sepia drawing, genus sepia, roman sepia, more...

Adjectives:
warm, dark, black, pale, light, deep, young, rich, blue, little, brown

Colors:
    sepia,     umber,     sienna,     chestnut,     mahogany, more...
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Similar:
Venetian red, burnt sienna, genus sepia, reddish brown, nero di seppia, sepiadariid, cuttlefish, sepiostaire, benthic black, cuttle, more...

Opposite:
color, vivid, bright, colorful, vibrant

Types:
brown, tan, beige, burnt sienna, burnt umber, cinnamon, dark brown, dark tan, light brown, more...

Phrases:
sepia tone, sepia drawing, genus sepia, roman sepia, more...

Adjectives:
warm, dark, black, pale, light, deep, young, rich, blue, little, brown

Colors:
    sepia,     umber,     sienna,     chestnut,     mahogany, more...



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