green
English


Etymology
From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, Low German grön, green, greun, German grün, Swedish grön, Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Norwegian Bokmål grønn), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). More at grow.
Pronunciation
- (UK, General Australian) enPR: grēn, IPA(key): /ɡɹiːn/
- (US, Canada) enPR: grēn, IPA(key): /ɡɹin/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -iːn
Adjective
green (comparative greener, superlative greenest)
- Having green as its color.
- The former flag of Libya is fully green.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:
- The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: […] .
- (figuratively, of people) Sickly, unwell.
- Sally looks pretty green — is she going to be sick?
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- to look so green and pale
- Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
- (figuratively, of people) Inexperienced.
- John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.
- (Can we date this quote?) Sir Walter Scott
- I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my grey hairs.
- (figuratively, of people) Naïve or unaware of obvious facts.
- (figuratively, of people) Overcome with envy.
- He was green with envy.
- (figuratively) Environmentally friendly.
- 2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, page 30:
- As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.
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- (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
- (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.[1]
- (dated) Not fully roasted; half raw.
- (Can we date this quote?) Isaac Watts
- We say the meat is green when half roasted.
- (Can we date this quote?) Isaac Watts
- Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
- That timber is still too green to be used.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (wine) High or too high in acidity.
- Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
- a green manhood; a green wound
- (Can we date this quote?) Edmund Burke
- as valid against such an old and beneficent government as against […] the greenest usurpation
- (Philippines) Having a sexual connotation.
- (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
Synonyms
- (having green as its color): verdant
- (of bacon: unprocessed): raw, unprocessed, unsmoked
- (of wine: high in acidity): tart
- See also Thesaurus:new
- See also Thesaurus:inexperienced
- See also Thesaurus:gullible
Antonyms
Derived terms
- blue-green
- greenery-yallery
- green-eyed
- greenfinch
- green-gill
- green-gold
- green-grey
- greenhorn
- greenling (Hexagrammidae)
- greenly
- greenschist, green schist
- greentailing
- green-wing
- engreen
- evergreen
- grass-green
- greenage
- greenback
- green-backed
- green-bag
- green-bed
- Greenbelt
- greenbelt
- green-bind
- green bird
- green-black
- green blights
- green-blue
- greenbone
- green-bone
- green-book
- greenbottle
- green-bottle
- greenbrier
- green-charge
- greencloth
- green-coat
- green-cod
- greened
- greener
- greenery
- greenfeed
- greenfield
- green-finned
- green-fish
- greenflag
- greenfly
- green-fly
- greengage
- green-gilled
- green-golden
- green-gray
- greenhand
- greenhead
- greenheart
- greenhew
- green-hide
- greenhide
- greenie
- greening
- greenish
- green-jerkin
- greenkin
- Greenland
- green-leek
- greenlet
- green-louse
- greenman
- greenmans
- greenmarket
- greenness
- Greenpeace
- green-peak
- green-peek
- green-plot
- green-pollack
- Green River
- greenroom
- green-room
- green-salted
- green-sand
- greensand
- greensauce
- green-seal
- greenshank
- green-shaving
- greenship
- greensickness
- green-sickness
- green-side
- Greensleeves
- green-sleeves
- green-soil
- greensome
- greenspeak
- green-staff
- greenstone
- green-stone
- greenstrip
- green-stuff
- greenstuff
- greensward
- green-tail
- greenth
- greenware
- greenwash
- greenwashing
- greenwax
- greenway
- greenweed
- green-wellie
- green-winged
- green with envy
- greenwood
- green-wort
- greeny
- green-yard
- greenyard
- green-yellow
- sengreen
- silgreen
- sillgreen
- still-green
- ungreen
- verigreen
- yellow-green
Related terms
- Blue-Green alliance
- go green
- green gill
- green gold
- Board of Green Cloth
- common green lacewing
- greater green leafbird
- great green macaw
- green about the gills
- green accounting
- green acres
- green alga
- green and pale
- green and wan
- green apron
- green around the gills
- green arrow
- green ash
- green audit
- green-backed firecrown
- green bag
- green baize
- green ban
- green bass
- Green Bay
- green bean
- green belt
- Green Beret
- green bice
- greenbottle fly
- green box
- green brass
- green brier
- green broom
- green bug
- green burial
- green butter
- green card
- green cheese
- green Christmas
- green cloth
- green coat
- green coffer
- green con
- green copperas
- green cormorant
- green corn
- green crab
- green crop
- green cross
- Green Cross Code
- green curtain
- green diallage
- green dolphin
- green dragon
- green drake
- green drops
- green earth
- green ebony
- green eel
- green endive
- green energy
- Green Erin
- green fallow
- green fat
- green fever
- green field
- green fields
- green fillet
- green fingers
- green fire
- green flash
- green fluorescent protein
- green frog
- green fund
- green gate
- green ginger
- green gland
- green glass
- Green Goddess
- green goods
- green goose
- green gown
- green grasshopper
- green grosbeak
- green hand
- green hastings
- green head
- green heron
- green hide
- green in earth
- green investing
- green iodide of mercury
- green iron ore
- Green Jackets
- green jaundice
- green jersey
- green label
- green labeling
- green labelling
- Green Lake
- green laver
- green lead ore
- green leaf lettuce
- green leech
- green leek
- green-leek parrot
- green light
- Green Line
- green linnet
- Green Linnets
- green lizard
- green looper
- green mamba
- green man
- green manure
- green marble
- green mineral
- green monkey
- Green Mountains
- Green Mountain State
- green mustard
- green oak
- green old age
- green onion
- green out
- green oyster
- green paper
- Green Party
- green party
- green pea
- green pepper
- green peril
- green pigeon
- green plover
- green pound
- green racer
- green ray
- green revolution
- green ribbon
- Green River
- Green River Ordinance
- green road
- green rod
- green room
- green rose
- green rushes
- green salad
- green salt of Magnus
- green sand
- green sauce
- green sea
- green seaweed
- greenshoe option
- green sickness
- green slip
- green sloke
- green snake
- green snow
- green soap
- green space
- greenstick fracture
- green stocks
- Green Striper
- green swallow
- green syrup
- green table
- green tar
- green tea
- green thumb
- green top
- green-tree ant
- green turtle
- green 'un
- green vitriol
- green water
- green wax
- green way
- green withe
- green with envy
- green woodpecker
- in green
- in the green tree
- keep the bones green
- lesser green leafbird
- little green man
- not as green as one is cabbage-looking
- red-and-green macaw
- something green in one's eye
- the grass is always greener on the other side
- the Green Island
- the Green Isle
Translations
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References
- “unsmoked bacon used to be called green bacon, though the term is losing currency” Delia Online: Bacon, including gammon
Noun
green (plural greens)
- 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:
- (politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
- 2013, Joe Smith, What Do Greens Believe?, →ISBN, page 62:
- How have greens sought to map an ecologically and socially sustainable future for society?
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- (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
- 2010, Dan Jenkins, Fairways and Greens, →ISBN, page 233:
- There are eighteen holes but I dare any visitor to find more than, say, twelve fairways and seven or eight greens.
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- (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
- (Britain) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
- A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- o'er the smooth enamelled green
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
- (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope
- In that soft season when descending showers / Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers.
- (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope
- Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
- (Britain, slang, uncountable) marijuana.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
- (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
Synonyms
- (environmentalist): environmentalist, greenie (Australian), tree hugger, treehugger
- (green vegetables): veg (informal)
- (putting green): putting green
- (surface on which bowls is played): bowling green
Derived terms
- advanced green
- almond green, almond-green
- antigreen
- apple green, apple-green
- ay-green
- Berlin green
- Bermuda green, Bermuda-green
- Bethnal Green
- bice green
- bladder green, bladder-green
- bleaching green, bleaching-green
- bottle green, bottle-green
- bowling green, bowling-green, Bowling Green
- bronze green, bronze-green
- Brunswick green Brunswick-green
- cedar green, cedar-green
- celandine green, celandine-green
- chrome green, chrome-green
- crown green
- deep green, deep-green
- emerald green, emerald-green
- fair green
- forest green, forest-green
- gaudy-green
- Golders Green
- grape green, grape-green
- grass green, grass-green
- green-blind
- green fee, greens fee
- greengrocer
- greenhouse
- green-keeper, greenkeeper, greenskeeper
- greenless
- greenside
- greensman
- Green Street Green
- greenwash
- green water
- Gretna Green
- Guignet's green
- Hungary green, Hungary-green
- hunter green, hunter's green
- in the green
- Jack-in-the-green
- jade green, jade-green
- jungle green, jungle-green
- kelly green, kelly-green
- Kendal green
- Kensal Green
- leek green, leek-green
- lettuce green, lettuce-green
- light green, light-green
- lime green, lime-green
- Lincoln green
- little green man
- long green
- Marina green, Marina-green
- mineral green, mineral-green
- mitis green
- Monastral Green
- mondegreen
- moss green, moss-green
- mountain green, mountain-green
- Nile green, Nile-green
- Norwood Green
- olive green, olive-green
- on the green
- overgreen
- Palmers Green
- Paris green
- parrot green, parrot-green
- pea green, pea-green
- pistachio green, pistachio-green
- Prussian green, Prussian-green
- putting green, putting-green
- red-green colorblindness, red-green colour blindness
- regreen
- RGB
- rifle-green
- rub of the green, rub on the green
- Russian green, Russian-green
- sage-green
- sap-green
- Saxon green, Saxon-green
- Scheele's green
- schweinfurt green
- sea green, sea-green
- see any green in one's eye
- Spanish green, Spanish-green
- spring green
- town green
- turquoise green, turquoise-green
- Veronese green, Veronese-green
- Vienna green
- village green
- vine-leaf green, vine-leaf-green
- Wood Green
Related terms
Translations
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Verb
green (third-person singular simple present greens, present participle greening, simple past and past participle greened)
- (transitive) To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
- (Can we date this quote?) Thomson
- Great spring before greened all the year.
- (Can we date this quote?) Thomson
- To become or grow green in colour.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Tennyson to this entry?)
- (Can we date this quote?) Whittier
- by greening slope and singing flood
- (transitive) To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
- 2000, AIA Guide to New York City (page 58)
- The newer 39-story, 1.5-million-square-foot tower occupies much of the original Shearson Garden, a larger parklet that briefly greened the construction site to be, and is remembered fondly by nearby Tribecans.
- 2000, AIA Guide to New York City (page 58)
- (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
- (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.
Synonyms
- (make (something) green): engreen
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɡriːn]
Usage 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]
Declension
References
- “Golf Club Hradec Králové, Jan. 6, 2010”, in (Please provide the title of the work), accessed 6 January 2010, archived from the original on 16 May 2010
Danish
German Low German
Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French greer; equivalent to gre + -en.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡreːən/
Verb
green (Late Middle English)
- To come to an understanding or agreement.
- (rare) To make a compact of reconciliation.
Conjugation
infinitive | (to) green | |
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indicative | present | past |
1st person singular | gree | greede |
2nd person singular | greest | greedest |
3rd person singular | greeth, greeþ | greede |
plural | green | greeden |
subjunctive | present | past |
singular | gree | greede |
plural | green | greeden |
imperative | present | |
singular | gree | |
plural | greeth, greeþ | |
participle | present | past |
greende, greinge | greed, ygreed |
References
- “grẹ̄en (v.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-15.
North Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian grēne, which derives from Proto-Germanic *grōniz.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ɡreːn/
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡriːn/
- Rhymes: -iːn