green
Meanings
noun
- The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.
- A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
- A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
- The surface upon which bowls is played.
- One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
- A public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
- A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
- Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
- Any substance or pigment of a green color.
- A green light used as a signal.
- Marijuana.
- Money.
adj
- Of a green hue.
- Sickly, unwell.
- Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
- Inexperienced.
- Islamist.
- Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; young.
- Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
- Overcome with envy.
- Environmentally friendly.
- Of a green party, environmentalism-oriented.
- Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
- Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.
verb
- To make or turn (something) green or greener.
- To become or grow green in color.
- To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
- To become environmentally aware.
- To make (something) environmentally friendly.
intj
- Used to indicate that the speaker wishes to commence (or to continue a previously stopped) sexual activity.
name
- A common English surname from Middle English.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A minor city in Clay County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Elliott County, Kentucky.
- A city in Summit County, Ohio, formerly a township.
- A census-designated place in Douglas County, Oregon.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Green Township.
- A place in Wales:
- A hamlet in Denbigh community, Denbighshire (OS grid ref SJ0568).
- A northern suburb of Pembroke, Pembrokeshire (OS grid ref SM9801).
- A settlement in Churchstoke community, Powys (OS grid ref SO2694).
- Ellipsis of Green College, Oxford.
adj
- Of, or pertaining, to a Green Party or green party.
noun
- A member of a Green Party or green party.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *grōniz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *grōnī Old English grēne Middle English grene English green From Middle English grene, from Old English grēne, from Proto-West Germanic *grōnī, from Proto-Germanic *grōniz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”). More at grow. Doublet of Gruen. See also North Frisian green, West Frisian grien, Dutch groen, Low German grön, green, greun, German grün, Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk grøn, Swedish grön, Norwegian Bokmål grønn, Faroese grønur, Icelandic grænn. The sense of obscene, pornographic, or sexual in the Philippines is a semantic loan from Spanish verde. In other varieties of English, blue is the color instead associated with obscenity or pornography.
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