Roan Creek (Colorado), a tributary of the Colorado River in Garfield County, Colorado Roan Mountain (Roan Highlands), a mountain on the Tennessee-North Carolina border

The meaning of ROAN is having the base color (such as red, black, or brown) muted and lightened by admixture of white hairs. How to use roan in a sentence.

The most common pattern is brown and white roan but a solid brown coat is also acceptable.

The earliest known use of the word roan is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for roan is from 1530, in the writing of John Palsgrave, teacher and scholar of languages.

ROAN definition: (chiefly of horses) of the color sorrel, chestnut, or bay, sprinkled with gray or white. See examples of roan used in a sentence.

A roan is a horse that is brown or black with some white hairs. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Define roan. roan synonyms, roan pronunciation, roan translation, English dictionary definition of roan. adj. Having a chestnut, bay, or sorrel coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray: a roan horse.