green

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English [edit]

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Various shades of green

Etymology [edit]

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

Pronunciation [edit]

Adjective [edit]

green (comparative greener, superlative greenest)

  1. Having green as its color.
    The former 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.
    • 2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, 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.
    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. (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. Naïve or unaware of obvious facts.

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Derived terms [edit]

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Terms derived from the adjective green

Translations [edit]

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 [edit]

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

Noun [edit]

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  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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Terms derived from the noun green

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Translations [edit]

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

Verb [edit]

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. To become or grow green in colour.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Tennyson to this entry?)
    By greening slope and singing flood. — Whittier.
  3. (transitive) To add greenspaces to (a town).
  4. (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
  5. (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.

Synonyms [edit]

  • (make (something) green): engreen

Derived terms [edit]

Translations [edit]

make (something) green
add green spaces to

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Anagrams [edit]

Czech [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From English green.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /griːn/

Noun [edit]

green m

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

Usage notes [edit]

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 [edit]

    declension of green
singular plural
nominative green greeny
genitive greenu greenů
dative greenu greenům
accusative green greeny
vocative greene greeny
locative greenu greenech
instrumental greenem greeny

References [edit]

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

Low German [edit]

Alternative forms [edit]

Adjective [edit]

green

  1. (Low Prussian) green
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