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1. green, greenness, viridity(noun)

   green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass

2. park, commons, common, green(noun)

   a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

   "they went for a walk in the park"

3. Green, William Green(noun)

   United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952)

4. Green(noun)

   an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party

5. Green, Green River(noun)

   a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River

6. green, putting green, putting surface(noun)

   an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course

   "the ball rolled across the green and into the bunker"

7. greens, green, leafy vegetable(noun)

   any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

8. K, jet, super acid, special K, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C(adj)

   street names for ketamine

9. green, greenish, light-green, dark-green(adj)

   of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass

   "a green tree"; "green fields"; "green paint"

10. green(adj)

    concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party

11. green, unripe, unripened, immature(adj)

    not fully developed or mature; not ripe

    "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood"

12. green(adj)

    looking pale and unhealthy

    "you're looking green"; "green around the gills"

13. fleeceable, green, gullible(verb)

    naive and easily deceived or tricked

    "at that early age she had been gullible and in love"

14. green(verb)

    turn or become green

    "The trees are greening"

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1. Green(a.)

   (Politics) Concerned especially with protection of the enviroment; -- of political parties and political philosophies; as, the European green parties.

   Etymology: [OE. grene, AS. grne; akin to D. groen, OS. grni, OHG. gruoni, G. grn, Dan. & Sw. grn, Icel. grnn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow.]

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1. green(Noun)

   A member of a green party; an environmentalist.

   Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

2. green(Noun)

   A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.

   Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

3. green(Noun)

   The surface upon which bowls is played.

   Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

4. green(Noun)

   One of the colour balls used in snooker with a value of 3 points.

   Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

5. green(Noun)

   a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.

   Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

6. green(Noun)

   marijuana.

   Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

7. green(Noun)

   Money.

   Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

8. green(Verb)

   To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.

   Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

9. green(Verb)

   To become or grow green in colour.

   Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

10. green(Verb)

    To add greenspaces to (a town).

    Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

11. green(Verb)

    To become environmentally aware.

    Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

12. green(Verb)

    To make (something) environmentally friendly.

    Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

13. green(Adjective)

    Having green as its color.

    The former flag of Libya is completely green.

    Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

14. green(Adjective)

    Sickly, unwell.

    Sally looks pretty green uE0009268uE001 is she going to be sick?

    Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

15. green(Adjective)

    Inexperienced.

    John's kind of green, so take it easy on him this first week.

    Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

16. green(Adjective)

    Environmentally friendly.

    Let's buy green copier paper for the office

    Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

17. green(Adjective)

    Overcome with envy.

    green with envy

    Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

18. green(Adjective)

    Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture

    Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

19. green(Adjective)

    Of bacon or similar smallgoods, unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.

    Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

20. green(Adjective)

    Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.

    Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

21. green(Adjective)

    Of wine, high or too high in acidity.

    Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

22. green(Adjective)

    Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried, containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.

    Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

23. green(Adjective)

    Naïve or unaware of obvious facts.

    Etymology: From grene, from grene, from grōniz (compare West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, German grün, Swedish grön Danish grøn), from gʰrōni- (compare Old Church Slavonic грань), from gʰreh₁. More at grow.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Green

   having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald

   Etymology: [OE. grene, AS. grne; akin to D. groen, OS. grni, OHG. gruoni, G. grn, Dan. & Sw. grn, Icel. grnn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow.]

2. Green

   having a sickly color; wan

   Etymology: [OE. grene, AS. grne; akin to D. groen, OS. grni, OHG. gruoni, G. grn, Dan. & Sw. grn, Icel. grnn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow.]

3. Green

   full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; as, a green manhood; a green wound

   Etymology: [OE. grene, AS. grne; akin to D. groen, OS. grni, OHG. gruoni, G. grn, Dan. & Sw. grn, Icel. grnn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow.]

4. Green

   not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc

   Etymology: [OE. grene, AS. grne; akin to D. groen, OS. grni, OHG. gruoni, G. grn, Dan. & Sw. grn, Icel. grnn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow.]

5. Green

   not roasted; half raw

   Etymology: [OE. grene, AS. grne; akin to D. groen, OS. grni, OHG. gruoni, G. grn, Dan. & Sw. grn, Icel. grnn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow.]

6. Green

   immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment

   Etymology: [OE. grene, AS. grne; akin to D. groen, OS. grni, OHG. gruoni, G. grn, Dan. & Sw. grn, Icel. grnn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow.]

7. Green

   not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as, green wood, timber, etc

   Etymology: [OE. grene, AS. grne; akin to D. groen, OS. grni, OHG. gruoni, G. grn, Dan. & Sw. grn, Icel. grnn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow.]

8. Green(noun)

   the color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue

   Etymology: [OE. grene, AS. grne; akin to D. groen, OS. grni, OHG. gruoni, G. grn, Dan. & Sw. grn, Icel. grnn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow.]

9. Green(noun)

   a grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage; as, the village green

   Etymology: [OE. grene, AS. grne; akin to D. groen, OS. grni, OHG. gruoni, G. grn, Dan. & Sw. grn, Icel. grnn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow.]

10. Green(noun)

    fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths; -- usually in the plural

    Etymology: [OE. grene, AS. grne; akin to D. groen, OS. grni, OHG. gruoni, G. grn, Dan. & Sw. grn, Icel. grnn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow.]

11. Green(noun)

    pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets, etc., which in their green state are boiled for food

    Etymology: [OE. grene, AS. grne; akin to D. groen, OS. grni, OHG. gruoni, G. grn, Dan. & Sw. grn, Icel. grnn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow.]

12. Green(noun)

    any substance or pigment of a green color

    Etymology: [OE. grene, AS. grne; akin to D. groen, OS. grni, OHG. gruoni, G. grn, Dan. & Sw. grn, Icel. grnn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow.]

13. Green(verb)

    to make green

    Etymology: [OE. grene, AS. grne; akin to D. groen, OS. grni, OHG. gruoni, G. grn, Dan. & Sw. grn, Icel. grnn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow.]

14. Green(verb)

    to become or grow green

    Etymology: [OE. grene, AS. grne; akin to D. groen, OS. grni, OHG. gruoni, G. grn, Dan. & Sw. grn, Icel. grnn; fr. the root of E. grow. See Grow.]

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1. Green

   Green is the color of emeralds, jade, and growing grass. In the continuum of colors of visible light it is located between yellow and blue. Green is the color most commonly associated with nature and the environmental movement, Ireland, Islam, spring, hope and envy.

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1. Green

   grēn, adj. of the colour of growing plants: growing: vigorous: new: unripe: inexperienced, simple, raw, easily imposed on: young.—n. the colour of growing plants: a small green or grassy plat, esp. that common to a village or town for public or merely ornamental purposes: the plot of grass belonging to a house or group of houses, usually at the back: (golf) the whole links on which the game is played, the putting-ground round the individual holes, generally counted as 20 yards from the hole all round: (pl.) fresh leaves: wreaths: the leaves and stems of green vegetables for food, esp. plants of the cabbage kind, spinach, &c.: a political party at Constantinople, under Justinian, opposed to the Blues.—ns. Green′back, popular name for the paper money first issued by the United States in 1862; Green′-cloth, a gaming-table: a department of the royal household, chiefly concerned with the commissariat—from the green cloth on the table round which its officials sat; Green′-crop, a crop of green vegetables, as grasses, turnips, &c.; Green′-earth, a mineral of a green colour and earthy character, used as a pigment by painters in water-colours; Green′ery, green plants: verdure.—adj. Green′-eyed, having green eyes: (fig.) jealous—Green-eyed monster, jealousy.—ns. Green′finch, Green linnet, a native bird of the finch family, of a green colour, slightly mixed with gray and brown; Green′grocer, a grocer or dealer who retails greens, or fresh vegetables and fruits; Green′-hand, an inferior sailor; Green′-heart, or Bebeeru, a very hard variety of wood found in the West Indies and South America; Green′horn, a raw, inexperienced youth; Green′house, a building, chiefly covered with glass and artificially heated, for the protection of exotic plants, or to quicken the cultivation of other plants or fruit; Green′ing (Keats), a becoming green: a kind of apple green when ripe.—adj. Green′ish, somewhat green.—n. Green′ishness.—adv. Green′ly, immaturely, unskilfully.—ns. Green′ness; Green′room, the retiring-room of actors in a theatre, which originally had the walls coloured green; Green′sand, a sandstone in which green specks of iron occur; Green′shank, a bird of the snipe family, in the same genus as the redshank and some of the sandpipers; Green′-sick′ness, chlorosis (see under Chlorine); Green′-snake, a harmless colubrine snake common in the southern United States; Green′stone, a rock term, now disused, for any dark-green basic crystalline (trap-rock); Green′sward, sward or turf green with grass; Green′-tea (see Tea); Greenth, greenness, verdure; Green′-tur′tle (see Turtle); Green′-vit′riol (see Vit′riol); Green′-weed

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1. green

   Raw and untutored; a metaphor from unripe fruit--thus Shakspeare makes Pandulph say: "How green are you and fresh in this old world!"

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1. green

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'green' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1058

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'green' in Written Corpus Frequency: #899

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'green' in Nouns Frequency: #1137

4. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'green' in Adjectives Frequency: #117

Anagrams for green »

1. genre

2. neger

3. regen

How to pronounce green?

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   Alex

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of green in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of green in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of green in a Sentence

1. An Australian origination manager:

   For many Australian corporations, Green bonds are a good fit because they have natural green assets that can be ring-fenced for these instruments, as far as pricing is concerned, I do not expect a differential to develop between Green and standard bonds with the growth of the Green market likely to happen naturally as more investors participate in a widening array of Green-specific projects.

2. Qing Tang:

   Proterocladus antiquus is a close relative of the ancestor of all green plants alive today.

3. Zac Goldsmith:

   I don't believe the government is going to give the green light to Heathrow expansion.

4. Kaare Lund Rasmussen:

   Next step is to warn librarians and readers of old books to wear protective gloves, and to advise libraries to store any green painted old books in a dry, dark environment out of harm’s way of people inhaling the air above the books, the reason for the latter recommendation is that arsenic has a tendency to transform to the airborne arsine (AsH3) given the right conditions of humidity and light. Besides the toxicity, arsenic is also carcinogenic.

5. Pascal Sciarini:

   There is a deep and durable change in people's concerns and a new general awareness of the urgency, the expected progress of the Greens and Green Liberals (GLP) can clearly be explained by the environmental concerns linked to climate change.

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