Green

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Various shades of green.

Adjective

Green (comparative Greener, superlative Greenest)

  1. Having green as its color.
    The flag of Libya is completely green.
  2. Sickly, unwell.
    Sally looks pretty green — is she going to be sick?
  3. Inexperienced.
    John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.
  4. Environmentally friendly.
    Let's buy green copier paper for the office
  5. (figuratively) Overcome with envy.
    green with envy
  6. (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture
  7. (food, dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods, unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.[1]
  8. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
  9. (wine) Of wine, high or too high in acidity.
  10. Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried, containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
  11. (Cockney) naïve or unaware of obvious facts.

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Noun

Green (plural Greens)
  1. The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters.
    Green colour:   
  2. (politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
  3. (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
  4. (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
  5. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker with a value of 3 points.
  6. (UK) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
  7. (UK, slang, uncountable) marijuana.
  8. (US, uncountable) Money.

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Verb

Green (third-person singular simple present Greens, present participle Greening, simple past and past participle Greened)

  1. (transitive) To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
  2. (transitive) To add green spaces to (a town).
  3. (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
  4. (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.

Synonyms

  • (make (something) green): engreen

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Adjectives for Green

shimmering; woodsy; opaque; dense; diversified; aqueous; resonant; luxuriant; dull; quiet; waving; pale; varied; feathery; delicate; wanton; pistache; exquisite; emerald; dim; faint; mossy; luminous; malachite; leaping; neutral; festive; luscious; slimy; lesser; consecutive; tender; tainted; translucent; glossy; arbute; rusty; delicious; willow; fresher; serpent; turquoise.

Thesaurus

Astroturf, a novice at, a stranger to, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acescent, adolescent, aestival, alive, amateur, amateurish, artificial turf, artless, at half cock, awkward, befoolable, beryl-green, berylline, blankminded, blooming, blue-green, bluish-green, blunt, boodle, bowling green, brass, bread, bucks, budding, cabbage, callow, chartreuse, chips, chloranemia, chloranemic, chloremia, chlorine, chlorophyll, chlorosis, chlorotic, citrine, citrinous, common, conservationist, crab, crabbed, cullible, deceivable, deludable, dewy, dinero, distrustful, dough, dry, dumb, dupable, easy, eidetic, emerald, empty, empty-headed, enduring, envious, environmental, environmentalist, ever-new, evergreen, exploitable, fairway, firsthand, fledgling, flush, flushed, foliaged, foolable, fresh, fresh as April, gauche, gelt, gilt, glaucescence, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, glaucousness, golf course, golf links, grassland, grassplot, grassy, grease, green as grass, green stuff, green with jealousy, green-blue, green-eyed, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greenishness, greenness, greensick, greensickness, greenyard, groping, grounds, growing, gullible, half-baked, half-cocked, half-grown, hoaxable, holly, hoodwinkable, horn-mad, humbugable, ignorant, ill-digested, immature, impubic, inane, inexperienced, inexpert, infant, ingenuous, innocent, intact, invidious, ivy, ivy-green, jack, jaundice-eyed, jaundiced, jealous, juicy, juvenile, kale, kept in remembrance, know-nothing, lasting, lawn, leafy, leaved, maiden, maidenly, mazuma, minor, moolah, mopus, naive, neoteric, nescient, nestling, new, new to, new-fledged, oil of palms, ointment, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, oof, ooftish, original, park, patinate, patinize, persuadable, pickled, pink, plaza, porraceous, preservationist, pristine, pungent, putting green, raw, recalled, recollected, remembered, retained, rhino, ripening, rocks, rosy, rosy-cheeked, ruddy, rural, sappy, sec, seduceable, sempervirent, shekels, simoleons, simple, smaragdine, soft, sour, sour as vinegar, soured, sourish, spondulics, springlike, square, strange to, sugar, summerlike, summery, suspicious, sward, tart, tartish, tender, tentative, the needful, tin, unaccustomed to, unacquainted, unacquainted with, unadult, unapprized, unbeaten, uncomprehending, unconversant, unconversant with, underage, underripe, undeveloped, unenlightened, unexperienced, unfamiliar, unfamiliar with, unfledged, unforgotten, unformed, ungrown, unhandled, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, uninitiated in, unintelligent, unknowing, unlicked, unmatured, unmellowed, unposted, unpracticed, unpracticed in, unripe, unseasoned, unskilled, unskilled in, unsophisticated, unsure, unsweet, unsweetened, untested, untouched, untrained, untried, untrodden, unused, unused to, unversed, unversed in, vacuous, verdancy, verdant, verdigris, verdure, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, victimizable, village green, vinegarish, vinegary, virescence, virescent, virgin, virginal, viridity, vivid, wampum, yellow, yellow-eyed, yellowish-green, young, youthful

Etymology

From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic  (granĭ, “branch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁ (“to grow”). More at grow.

Pronunciation

Translations

Adjective

having green as its colour
sickly
inexperienced
environmentally friendly
envious
cricket pitch
of bacon, etc: unprocessed, raw
of fruit: unripe
of wine: acidic or too acidic
lumber

References

  1. ↑ “unsmoked bacon used to be called green bacon, though the term is losing currency” Delia Online: Bacon, including gammon

Noun

colour
member of a green party
putting green — see putting green
bowling green — see bowling green
snooker: green ball with value 3

Verb

make (something) green
add green spaces to


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Czech

Etymology

From English green.

Noun

Green m.

  1. (slang, golf) green (a putting green; the part of a golf course near the hole)

Notes

Although the official term for the green is jamkoviště, it is rarely used in practice. Instead, unofficial Czech versions of the English word green, variously spelled green, grýn, and grín, are used in practice.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Golf Club Hradec Králové, Jan. 6, 2010
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