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Definition green

Etymology

From Middle English grene, from Old English gr?ne, from Proto-Germanic *gr?niz (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 *g?reh?- (“to grow”). More at grow.

Adjective

green (comparative greener, superlative greenest)

1. Having green as its color.
2. (figuratively, of people) Sickly, unwell.
3. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
4. (figuratively, of people) Inexperienced.
5. (figuratively, of people) Naïve or unaware of obvious facts.
6. (figuratively, of people) Overcome with envy.
7. (figuratively) Environmentally friendly.
8. (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
9. (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.
10. (dated) Not fully roasted; half raw.
11. Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
12. (wine) High or too high in acidity.
13. Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
14. (Philippines) Having a sexual connotation.
15. (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.

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.
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. (Britain) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
7. A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
8. (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
9. Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
10. (Britain, slang, uncountable) marijuana.
11. (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
12. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.

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. To become or grow green in colour.
3. (transitive) To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.).
4. (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
5. (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.

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